CNG 103, Lot: 1106. Estimate $3000. Sold for $5500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

TRANSYLVANIA, Principality. Gabriel Báthory. 1608-1613. AV Dukát (22mm, 3.51 g, 12h). Cluj-Napoca (Klausenburg / Kolozsvár) mint. Dated 1611 CV. Armored half-length bust right, holding mace over shoulder / Crowned coat-of-arms within ouroboros (serpent devouring its own tail). Resch 107; MBR 945; KM 62; Friedberg 336. EF, a few small marks, small test mark on edge.

Ex Dr. Lawrence A. Adams Collection (Triton XIX, 5 January 2016), lot 2676 (hammer $7500, but not paid); Virgil M. Brand Collection (Part 8, Sotheby’s, 24 January 1985), lot 247.