CNG 97, Lot: 941. Estimate $2500. Sold for $2500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ITALY, Toscana (Granducato). Ferdinando I de Medici. 1587-1609. AR Piastra d’argento (43mm, 32.24 g, 6h). Firenze (Florence) mint. Dated 1589. FERDI NANDVS · MED · MAGN · DVX · ETRVRIÆ · III, bareheaded, draped, and armored bust right; · six-rayed star and pierced eight-rayed star · below bust / FILIVS MEVS DILECTVS, Il Battesimo di Gésu: Giovanni Battista, holding cruciform staff and bowl, baptising Gésu, standing right in attitude of humility; colomba dello Spirito Santo above; banks of River Jordan in background; (mullet) 1589 (mullet) in exergue; triangular stops. CNI XII 61 var. (obv. legend stops); MIR 224/2. Good VF, toned.