Sale: CNG 81, Lot: 1226. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 20 May 2009.  Sold For $400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CRUSADERS, Uncertain. AV Ducat (3.40 g, 12h). Imitating Knights of Malta (Order of St. John of Jerusalem). Uncertain mint. Struck in the name of Adrien de Wignacourt (?), 1690-1697. IOИHAI C/V/X AHT MOIA • (C retrograde), •M• in exergue, St. John standing right, holding Gospels and presenting cross-tipped scepter to Doge kneeling left / O MAIAOIIMAO • O • INIASOIMO (S retrograde), Christ standing facing, raising hand in benediction and holding Gospels, surrounded by elliptical halo containing seveteen rosettes. Ives -; Gamberini -; LHS 99, 291 (this coin). Good VF.

Ex LHS 99 (24 October 2006), lot 219; Leu FPL 20 (October 1985), no. 134.