CNG 100, Lot: 2182. Estimate $10000. Sold for $7500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ITALY, Ferrara (Duchi). Alfonso I d'Este . 1505-1534. AR Testone (29mm, 9.74 g, 8h). Struck circa 1509-1522. ALFONSVS DVX FER III S R E CONF (wedge stops, final leaf stop), bust left / DE FORTI DVLCEDO (wedge stops), Samson seated left on curule chair, holding lion mask from which a swarm of six bees flies forth; serpent-entwined stump to left. CNI X 38 var. (rev. stops); Bellesia 11/B var. (same). EF, toned. Artistic dies. Rare.