CNG 97, Lot: 942. Estimate $2000. Sold for $1200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ITALY, Toscana (Granducato). Cosimo III de Medici. 1670-1723. AR Testone (33mm, 8.98 g, 6h). Series I. Firenze (Florence) mint. Dated 1676. COSMVS · III · D · G · MA · D · ETRV · VI, bareheaded, draped, and armored bust right / S · IOANNE S BAPTISTA, Giovanni Battista seated facing on rock outcropping, pointing heavenward and holding cruciform staff; at feet to right, recumbent lamb left, looking up; 1676 on ground below. CNI XII 19-20; MIR 332/2. EF, areas of light toning, lustrous, slightly irregular flan.