355, Lot: 775. Estimate $300. Sold for $450. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CRUSADERS, Venetians in the Levant. nomine Andrea Dandolo. Circa 1344-1382. AV Ducat (21mm, 3.49 g, 3h). Imitating Venice. Uncertain mint. (horizontal S)/Z/V/Є/N/Є/T/I D/V/X VЄC(R or B)CΛNCVTO, St. Mark standing right, holding Gospels and presenting banner containing two pellets to Doge kneeling left / • TΛCVC(retrograde Є)TSISI : (retrograde G)(retrograde P) • • VT • (retrograde Q) ‘TΛC • (retrograde Є)(retrograde P)XTTIS •, Christ standing facing, raising hand in benediction and holding Gospels, surrounded by elliptical halo containing four stars to left, five to right; pellet between feet. Cf. CNI VII 37 (for type); cf. Ives pl. XIII (same); cf. Gamberini 344 (Roberto d’Angio pr. Acaia). Near EF, slightly clipped.

From the Prue Morgan Fitts Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Review XXVII (Summer 2002), no. 89.