CNG 103, Lot: 1107. Estimate $3000. Sold for $4500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

TRANSYLVANIA, Principality. Ecaterina de Brandenburg. 1629-1630. AV Dukát (22mm, 3.47 g, 12h). Dated 1630. Facing bust wearing elaborate lace collar / Madonna seated facing on crescent in flames, holding scepter and infant Christ; coat-of-arms below. Resch 1; MBR 1937; KM 221; Friedberg 371. EF, twice holed and skillfully repaired. Very rare. LOT SOLD AS IS, NO RETURNS.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams, purchased from M. Louis Teller, October 1985.