Watch List notes:

ITALY, Venice. Coinage for Candia (Crete). Giovanni Cornaro, 1624-1630. 30 Tornesi or 2 Soldi (Billon, 25 mm, 2.89 g, 1 h). TOPNEΣIA/ TPIANTA in two lines; above, rosette between two stars; below rosette; the whole within dotted circle; around, ✶IΩAN• KOPNHΛIOΣ Ο ΔOYΞ✿. Rev. O AΓIOΣ MAPKOΣ Winged lion of S. Marco standing left, with Book of Gospel; in exergue value, (II) between two stars. CNI VIII, 179. Paolucci 893. Papadopoli 145. Rare denomination. Overstruck or restruck, otherwise, very fine.

From a collection formed in the 1980s by a Specialist.