Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 897. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Monday, 5 January 2009.  Sold For $425. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CRUSADERS, Venetians in the Levant. Two AV Ducats. Imitating Venice. Uncertain mint. Struck in the name of Francesco Doná, 1545-1553. Both coins: St. Mark standing right, holding Gospels and presenting flag to Doge kneeling left; exergual line below / Christ standing facing, raising hand in benediction and holding Gospels, surrounded by elliptical halo containing stars. Lot includes the following varieties: (3.41 g). •/S/•/M/•/V/E/N/E/T D/V/X FRΛN • DON / SIT T XPE DΛT Q TV REGIS ISTE DVC •, four and five stars flanking a crudely rendered Christ. // (3.35 g). S/M/V/E/N/E/T D/V/X FRΛN DON, pellet to left of flag / SIT T XPE DΛT Q T • • V RIGIS ISTE DV •, four and five stars flanking a crudely rendered Christ. Cf. CNI VII 81; Ives -; Schlumberger -; Gamberini -. Average VF, LOT SOLD AS IS, NO RETURNS. Two (2) coins in lot.

From the B.R. Bell Collection. Second coin ex Classical Numismatic Group 54 (14 June 2000), lot 2054.

Similar to the previous coin. These imitations appear to be of good gold, and are nearly full weight.