LOT 4137
Italian States, Venezia (Venice, Republic). Francesco Veniero BI Carzie. 1554-1556. Struck for circulation in Cyprus.
✠ S • MARCVS • VENETVS, lion rampant to left / ✠ FRAN • VENERIO • DVX •, cross pattée. Tziambazis II 2; Paolucci 15. Near Very Fine.(0.44gr, 14mm, 2h.).
ProvenanceEx Parthenon Gallery and Coincraft, London, UK, 1990s-2000s.
Property of a North London, UK, private collector.
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LOT 4137
Italian States, Venezia (Venice, Republic). Francesco Veniero BI Carzie.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
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Crusader States. Cyprus (Lusignan Kingdom), Peter I AR Gros. 1359-1369. Nicosia mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £221
✠ PIЄRЄ PAR LA GRACЄ D' DЄ RЄ, Peter enthroned facing, holding sword and globus cruciger; to left, bird standing right; quatrefoil on throne; shield to lower right / ✠ D' IЄRUSALЄᙏ + Є + D' CҺIPRЄ, Jerusalem cross, with square voided centre. Cf. M&P pl. 35, 1-2; cf. Metcalf, Crusades 778; cf. CCS 82. 4.56gr, 25mm, 7h.
Very Fine.
Ex A.H. Baldwin & Sons, Ltd (with old Baldwin's coin packet). Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman. -
Italian States, Venezia (Venice, Republic). Pietro Loredano BI 4 Carzie. Doge LXXXIV, 1567-1570. Struck for circulation in Cyprus.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
✠ SANCTVS MARCVS VENET, lion rampant to left / ✠ PETRVS • LAVREDA • DVX •, cross pattée, lozenge in each quarter. Tziambazis 6; CNI VII, 59; Paolucci 910. 1.92gr, 19mm, 6h.
Very Fine.
Ex Parthenon Gallery and Coincraft, London, UK, 1990s-2010. Property of a North London, UK, private collector. -
Crusasers. Lusignan Kingdom of Cyprus, James II AE Sezin. 1460-1473.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
+ IACOBUS • DЄI [...], lion rampant to left / [...]SALЄᙏ • CIPRI, Cross of Jerusalem. Metcalf, Crusades -; CCS - (cf. 163). 1.52gr, 19mm, 7h.
Near Very Fine. Edge chipped. Extremely rare; apparently unpublished variant.
Ex Parthenon Gallery and Coincraft, London, UK, 1990s-2010. Property of a North London, UK, private collector.
