Sale: Triton VII, Lot: 1181. Estimate $3000.  Closing Date: Monday, 12 January 2004.  Sold For $4500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ITALY, Papal States. Clement VII. 1523-1534. AR Double Carlino (5.32 gm). Rome mint; mm: crossed hands. CLEMENS VII PONT MAX, bare-headed and mantled bust left; collar panels contain portraits of Sts. Peter and Paul / QVARE DVBITASTI, Christ standing left, lifting St. Peter above the waves. CNI XV pg. 386, 60; Muntoni I pg. 149, 43; Berman 841. Near EF, light scratch on reverse. Marvellous Renaissance portrait with dies engraved by Benvenuto Cellini. Rare. ($3000)