440, Lot: 611. Estimate $750. Sold for $850. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MALTA, Sovereign Military Order of Malta. Alof de Wigancourt. Grandmaster, 1601-1622. AR Tallero (41mm, 26.85 g, 6h). Countermarked issue. Wignacourt coat-of-arms within incuse struck on reverse of a Dordrecht in Holland mint Leeuwendalder, dated 1601 (P&W Ho22). Cf. V.F. Denaro, “Dutch coins and Maltese countermarks,” NC 1963, Fig. B (host coin dated 1604); Restelli & Sammut, pl. LXXXIX, 2. Host coin Good Fine, countermark VF.