Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 910. Estimate $400.  Closing Date: Monday, 5 January 2009.  Sold For $415. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

INDIA, Local Issues. 19th-early 20th centuries. Four AV Ducats. Imitating Venice. Uncertain mint. Struck in the name of Alvise Mocenigo IV, 1763-1778. All coins: St. Mark standing right, holding Gospels and presenting flag to Doge kneeling left / Christ standing facing, raising hand in benediction and holding Gospels, surrounded by elliptical halo containing stars. Lot includes the following varieties: (3.34 g). Struck circa late 18th-19th centuries. (retrograde S)/•/M/•/V/B/N/B/T/(star) D/V/X ALOY • MOCBN •, slightly stylized St. Mark and Doge / SIT • T • XPE • DΛT Q TV REGIS ISTE DVCΛ, Christ (with blank face) in elliptical halo with sixteen stars around. // (2.71 g). Struck circa 19th Century. S/M/V/E/N/B/T/(star) D/V/X ALOY • MOCBN • / SIT T XPE DΛT Q TV REGIS ISTE DVDΛ (last D retrograde), unusual style. // Export ducat (3.15 g). Circa 19th century(?). (retrograde S)/ M /V/E/N/E/T D/V/X ALOY • MOCEN, 990 (fineness) inscribed in exergue / SIT • T • XPE • DAT • O • TV REGIS ISTE DVCA, stylized Christ. // (2.19 g). S/•/M/•/V/E/N/E/T/ D/V/X ALOY • MOCEN • / SIT • T • XPE • DΛT . Q . TV REGIS [ISTE] DVCA, fairly accurate imitation (for jewelry?) with somewhat stylized figures. Ives -; cf. Papadopoli (Castellani) 16258; cf. Bell, Imitation 1914.9.1.10, 1935.4.1.9714, and 1910.5.1.2 (BM, unnamed bequests). Coins VF or better, first and third coins holed. LOT SOLD AS IS, NO RETURNS. Four (4) coins in lot.

From the B.R. Bell Collection.