Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 903. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Monday, 5 January 2009.  Sold For $300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CRUSADERS, Chios. Maona Society. Circa 1347-1533. AV Ducat (3.49 g, 6h). Imitating Venice. Uncertain mint. Struck in the name of Tomaso Mocenigo, 1413-1422. S/M/V/Є/N/Є/T/I/O D/V/+ TOM MODDMIO (second D retrograde), St. Mark standing right, holding Gospels and presenting flag (type 1) to Doge kneeling left; triple pellets to left of flag / • SIT T +PЄ • DΛT Q – • V ЄOIS ISTЄ DVCΛT •, Christ standing facing, raising hand in benediction and holding Gospels, surrounded by elliptical halo containing four stars to left, five to right. Cf. CNI VII 19; Ives -; Schlumberger XIV, 12 var. (legend); Gamberini 396 var. (same); Friedberg 2e (Greece). EF, worn dies.

From the B.R. Bell Collection.

Traditionally attributed to Chios by Schlumberger and his followers. This is not altogether unlikely, although the reverse legends are a bit odd. Die linked to another reverse that contains the phrase ‘TOIS ISTE DVCAT’ (cf. Lanz 118, lot 444).