ITALY, Venezia (Venice). Office of the Ternaria Vecchia. Square Æ Tessera Alimentare (20x20mm, 3.87 g, 9h). For Olive Oil. Manufactured by the Cinque Savii alla Mercanzia e Navigazione. Struck circa 1550-1575.

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Lot: 629. Estimated: $ 200

World, Bronze

Sold For $ 600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

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ITALY, Venezia (Venice). Office of the Ternaria Vecchia. Square Æ Tessera Alimentare (20x20mm, 3.87 g, 9h). For Olive Oil. Manufactured by the Cinque Savii alla Mercanzia e Navigazione. Struck circa 1550-1575. Lion of St. Mark, head facing, standing left on ground line, supporting Gospels with front paw; three stars to left and right; below ground line, SII (star below) MIA (star below) / + TERNARIA • VECCHIA, Symbol of quantity; lis in each quarter; all within ornate frame. Majer 1; K. Petkov, The Anxieties of a Citizen Class (Leiden: 2014), p. 58 (for a discussion of the Ternaria Vecchia). Brown surfaces. VF. Rare.

Ex Serenissima Collection (Part I, Arsantiqva, 19 April 2002 ), lot 209; Conte Dino Lucheschi Collection.


Closing Date and Time: 3 June 2020 at 13:29:20 ET.

All winning bids are subject to an 18% buyer’s fee.