ITALY, Venezia (Venice). Office of the Ternaria Vecchia. Triangular Æ Tessera Alimentare (22x23mm, 2.66 g, 10h). For Olive Oil. Manufactured by the Provveditori alla Ternaria. Struck circa 1550-1575.

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Lot: 630. Estimated: $ 200

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ITALY, Venezia (Venice). Office of the Ternaria Vecchia. Triangular Æ Tessera Alimentare (22x23mm, 2.66 g, 10h). For Olive Oil. Manufactured by the Provveditori alla Ternaria. Struck circa 1550-1575. Lion of St. Mark, head facing, standing left on ground line, supporting Gospels with front paw; star to left and right; below ground line, PTV (star) below / Large I, star above and below, parsley leaf to left and right; all within circular pelleted border; additional parsley leafs in outer margin. Majer 3; 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 210; Conte Dino Lucheschi Collection.


Closing Date and Time: 3 June 2020 at 13:29:40 ET.

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