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303, Lot: 704. Estimate $75.
Sold for $45. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ITALY, Venezia (Venice). Pietro Gradenigo. 1289-1311. Æ “Sesino” Fantasy or Imitation (19mm, 1.21 g, 2h). · PЄT · GRAD · DVX V, cross pattée with pellet ends; pellets in quarters / [...] PЄRVS · VЄnI[...], facing lion of S. Marco. CNI VII –; Papadopoli –; Paolucci –. VF, brown surfaces. Crude.


From a European Collection.

The sesino was not introduced until the mid-16th century, long after Pietro Gradenigo’s tenure as Doge. This piece was either struck at that time period as a contemporary imitation or during the 19th-20th centuries as a collector’s fantasy piece.