Experts in Coins & Medals

ITALY, Venice. Coinage for Dalmatia and Albania. Circa 1684 and later. Leone of 80 Soldi (Silver, 34.5 mm, 10.47 g, 5 h), struck under the doge Alvise II Mocenigo, 1700-1709, Venice, mintmaster Bernardo Gritti , 1705. S✶ M✶ V✶ ALOY✶ MOCENI Alvise II Mocenigo, kneeling to left, grasping long, cross-tipped scepter, and being blessed by St. Mark, seated to right; in the exergue, ✶G·B✶. Rev. Winged lion of St. Mark standing to left among the sea-waves, with his head facing, holding olive branch in his right paw; to left, Dalmatian fortress; in the exergue, denomination flanked by stars. Karamitsos DA.17c (mint error). KM 11. Montenegro 2269. Paolucci 806. Toned and well centered, and with a yery rare mint error: the mintmaster's initials inverted are transposed! No example has appeared in any auction in the past decades. Graded by NGC "VF details / rev. scratched". Cert number: 2909007-011.

MACEDON. Philippi. The Triumvirs. Mark Antony, 42 BC. (Bronze, 22 mm, 6.51 g, 11 h), struck under the legatus coloniae deducendae, M. Paquius Rufus. A I C V P Bare head of Mark Antony to right; right hand holding a caduceus, within rectangular countermark punched against the lower right field. Rev. Q PAQVIVS RVF LEG C D Togate figure seated left on curule chair; at feet to left, urn. AMNG II 11. RPC I 1647. SNG ANS 673 (same obverse die). SNG Copenhagen 304. Very rare; struck just after the defeat of the assassins of Julius Caesar in 42 BC by the second Triumvirate. A few deposits, otherwise, about very fine.