428, Lot: 563. Estimate $150. Sold for $360. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ITALY, Venezia (Venice). Girolamo Priuli. 1559-1567. PB Bulla (36mm, 58.95 g, 8h). Dated 1567. HIERONIMVS PRIOL VE D(VX), bust right, wearing corno dogale / I P V AN/ VIII ME II DI/ IIII OBI A M/DLXVII M/ N DE IIII in five line. Gamberini 422; Artemide XLIV, lot 586. VF, traces of original cord. Extremely rare.

An unusual posthumous piece after a medal created for the occasion of the doge’s death (see Voltolina 545). The reverse legend states that the doge died eight years, two months, and four years into his reign, on 4 November 1567.