Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 902. Estimate $200.  Closing Date: Monday, 5 January 2009.  Sold For $180. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CRUSADERS, Chios. Genoese occupation. Circa 1362-1400. AV Ducat (3.51 g, 6h). Imitating Venice. Uncertain mint. Struck in the name of Michele Steno, 1400-1413. • S/•/M/V/Є/N/Є/• D/V/✠ MIChΛЄL ST’, St. Mark standing right, holding Gospels and presenting flag (type 6, but with longer flys) to Doge kneeling left / • SIT • T • ✠PD • DXT P (P horizontal) T V RDD INT DΛVDI, Christ standing facing, raising hand in benediction and holding Gospels, surrounded by elliptical halo containing four stars to left, five to right; pellet between feet. Ives -; Schlumberger -; cf. Gamberini 395; Friedberg 2d (Greece); Lanz 118, 443 (same dies). VF, struck with worn dies.

From the B.R. Bell Collection. Ex Elsen 63 (16 September 2000), lot 1833.

Another coin frequently attributed to Chios, but on little evidence. Although several of this type have entered the marketplace, none of the main references managed to catalog this issue.