World Silver & Bronze Coins A - Spain
Lot 1610 Session 6 (9.30am Wednesday 23 November) World Silver & Bronze Coins A - Spain
Estimate $1,800
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $1,500
ITALY, Milano (Duchi), Ludovico Maria Sforza, (1494-1499), silver testone, (9.66 g), obv. nimbate and mitered facing head (St. Ambrose) as a mint mark, around, LVDOVICVS M SF ANGLVS DVX MLI, armoured bust to right of Ludovico Sforza, rev. coat-of-arms, around PP ANGLE Q3 CO ACIANVF D 7C, nimbate and mitered facing head (St. Ambrose) as a mint mark, (CNI V, 19 Pl.X 10, Morosini 5, Biaggi 1579). Toned, very fine and very scarce.
Ex Tom May Collection, Noble Numismatics Sale 99 (lot 2736).
See illustration of this coin in the paper 'A Renaissance Moment' published in Australasian Coin and Banknote, April 2008, p45. A better example realised US$4500+ in Triton XVIII (lot 1579), January 2015.
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