World Silver & Bronze Coins
Lot 2690 SESSION 8 (Thursday 9.30am) World Silver & Bronze Coins
Estimate $600
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $400
CYPRUS, Famagusta siege coin by Turkey, AE issue under Doge Petro Loredan, dated 1570. Very fine or better, scarce and a very interesting piece.
Ex Ruth Pope Collection, Noble Numismatics Sale 83 (lot 3727 part) as part of her Crusader Collection. The seige of Famagusta by the Turks saw the minting of a large copper coin to pass as a bezant. This was the last coin struck on the island and the last Cypriot coin until the modern coinage under Queen Victoria, in 1879.(ref: Collect Cyprus Coins, by T. J. Fitikedes, where the story of the siege is given [pp.6]).
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