CNG 109, Lot: 831. Estimate $7500. Sold for $11000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ITALY, Papale (Stato pontificio). Urban VIII. 1623-1644. AV Quadrupla (30mm, 13.01 g, 8h). Avignon mint. Dated 1629. Bust right, wearing mantum; below, coat-of-arms surmounted by gallero with tassels / Coat-of-arms surmounted by cross fourchée and gallero with tassels. Muntoni 199; Berman 1782; Duplessy, Féodales 1974; Poey d’Avant –; Friedberg 59. Good VF, toned, lustrous. Very rare.

Ex ‘Importante serie di monete d’oro dello Stato Pontificio’ (Numismatica Ars Classica 104, 16 December 2017), lot 549.