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CNG 88, Lot: 1890. Estimate $10000.
Sold for $12000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ITALY, Ferrara (Ducato). Alfonso I d'Este . 1505-1534. AR Testone – Quarto (29mm, 9.68 g, 12h). ALFONSVS · DVX · FERRARIE · III : ·, armored bust left / · DE FORTI · DVLCEDO ·, Romanesque Samson seated left on curule chair, holding lion mask from which a swarm of bees flies forth; serpent-entwined stump to left. CNI X 26; Bellesia 10/D var. (obv. legend); Varesi 271/1; Morosini 4 var. (same). EF, wonderful cabinet tone. Very rare.


Ex Armand Trampitsch Collection (Part II, Rassion and Cellard, 31 May 1988), lot 613.