Sale: CNG 64, Lot: 1399. Estimate $200.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 24 September 2003.  Sold For $260. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CRUSADERS, Chios (Genoese). Pilippo-Maria Visconti. 1421-1436. AV Ducat (3.51 gm). Christ standing facing, raising hand in benediction and holding Gospels, surrounded by elliptical halo containing nine stars / D MEDIOLAN DVX S PETRVS, St. Peter standing right, presenting banner to kneeling Doge. Schlumberger pg. 420 (cf. pl XV, 14) var. (legend); Tzamale 186a var. (same); Gamberini 398 var. (same). Good VF. Unrecorded variety with S PETRVS in retrograde. ($200)