Watch List notes:

ITALY, Papale (Stato pontificio). Leo X. 1513-1521. AV Ducat (23mm, 3.46 g, 8h). Modena mint. Struck 1517-1519. + ' LEO ' X ' PONTIF EX MAXIMVS ', bust left, wearing mantum and zucchetto / ' S ' GEMINI ' MVT ' PONTI ', St. Gemini seated leffacing, holding croizer and modl of city; below, coat-of-arms surmounted by Papal tiara. M. Chimienti, G. Cassanelli, & N. Cassanelli, "La Zecca Pontificia di Modena la Monetazione di Leone X," in Panorama Numismatica XXXIII.320 (September 2016), 21 (dies B/b – this coin); MIR 688/1; Muntoni 129; Berman 708. Near EF, lightly toned. Extremely rare – one of three cited by Chimienti, Cassanelli, & Cassanelli and the only in private hands.


Ex Varesi 37 (31 October 2001), lot 325.