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271, Lot: 172. Estimate $3000.
Sold for $6500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ITALY, Papale (Stato pontificio). Leo XII. 1823-1829 (Annibale Francesco Clemente Melchiore Girolamo Nicola Sermattei della Genga). AV Doppio zecchino (22mm, 7.49 g, 1h). Rome mint. Dually-dated RY 5 and 1828. LEO · XII · PON · MAX · ANNO · V ·, bust let, wearing zucchetto, mozzetta, and pallium / SVPRA · FIR MAM · PETRAM (rosette stops), The Church standing facing, head left, wearing nimbus crown and holding goblet and long cross; to right, agnus Dei seated right upon column, head upturned left. CNI XVII 16; Muntoni 3; Serafini 1; Berman 3253; Pagani 126; Friedberg 252; KM 1089. AU, lustrous mirrored fields, with frosted devices, a few light marks. Exceptional and rare.


Property of Princeton Economics acquired by Martin Armstrong. Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 14 (9 October 1998), lot 1223.