ITALY, Toscana (Granducato). Leopoldo II. 1824-1848. AV Zecchino o Fiorino d'oro (3.49 g, 6h). Firenze (Florence) mint; Domenico Fiaschi, mintmaster; Giuseppe Nideröst, mint engraver. Dated 1832. Ornate lily; N • (flask) • in exergue / St. John the Baptist seated left, raising hand in benediction and holding cross-tipped scepter; 1832 (date) in exergue. CNI XII 37; Pagani 104; MIR 445/4. Good VF, a few marks, polished, evidence of having been placed in a bezel.
From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams. Ex Quality Sales Corp. (Kreisberg/Cohen) Auction (8 November 1976), lot 525.