Triton XIX, Lot: 2629. Estimate $7500. Sold for $17000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

POLAND, Monarchy. Jan III Sobieski. 1674-1696. AV 3 Dukaty (36mm, 10.37 g, 12h). Presentation issue for the reopening of the Kraków mint. Kraków (Cracow) mint. Dated 1677 (in Roman numerals), but possibly a later restrike. IOANNES III D . G · REX POL · M · D · LIT · RUS · PR, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / ALMA URBS CRACOVIA ·, view of city of Kraków (Cracow) with scenes of the river; radiate all-seeing eye above; in exergue, MDCLXXVII ·/– APR : – . Kopicki –; Czapski 2424; MP D 71a; KM –; Friedberg –; Kroisos Collection (Stack’s, 14 January 2008), lot 3092. Good VF, smoothing in the fields, once mounted . Very rare.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams, purchased from M. Louis Teller, August 1987.