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452, Lot: 884. Estimate $1000.
Sold for $1400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MALTA, Sovereign Military Order of Malta. Alof de Wigancourt. Grandmaster, 1601-1622. AR Tallero (40mm, 26.73 g, 6h). Countermarked issue. Wignacourt coat-of-arms within incuse struck on reverse of a Dordrecht in Holland mint Leeuwendaalder, dated 1617 (P&W Ho24). Cf. V.F. Denaro, “Dutch coins and Maltese countermarks,” NC 1963, Fig. B (host coin dated 1604); Restelli & Sammut, pl. LXXXIX, 3. A couple of test cuts. Host coin Good Fine, countermark VF.