361, Lot: 637. Estimate $300. Sold for $340. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ITALY, temp. Regno d'Italia. Benito Mussolini. 1922-1943. AV Medal (23mm, 7.90 g, 12h). Mussolini’s Assumption of the Title “Il Duce”. By Mistruzzi. Dated 1925 (in Roman numerals). BENITVS · MVSSOLINVS DVX · MCMXXV, bust left / ITALIAM · VEHIT · FOR TVNAMQVE · SVAM, helmsman standing left on ship’s stern decorated with fasces, holding rudder. See Sincona 6, lot 1400 (for another example, including suspension ring). Superb EF, matte surfaces.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams.