Triton XVIII, Lot: 1598. Estimate $300. Sold for $2750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ITALY, Toscana (Granducato). Leopoldo I. 1765-1790. AR Tallero per il Levante (41mm, 28.10 g, 6h). Firenze (Florence) mint; Luigi Siries, engraver. Dated 1774. P. LEOP. D. G. P. R · H · ET B · A · A · M · D · ETR., bareheaded, armored, and draped bust right; L. S. F. at truncation of bust / IN TE DOMINE SPERAVI 1774 X, crowned coat-of-arms with crowned eagle supporters set on ornate perches; shield within Collar of the Order of the Golden Fleece. Edge: ([floral design] [three-link chain]) IVSTITIA ([floral design] [three-link chain] [floral design]) ET (floral design) PAX ([floral design] [three-link chain]) (two lis). CNI XII 52; MIR 401/6; Davenport 1513; C 23. EF, light hairlines, small flan split.

From the Joseph R Lasser Collection for the benefit of The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. Ex Ponterio 119 (6 April 2002), lot 1670.