Watch List notes:

ITALY, Lucca. Commune. 1160-1369. AR Grosso (20mm, 1.72 g, 6h). In the name of the Holy Roman emperor Otto IV as King of Italy, 1208-1212. Struck circa 1250-1275. + OTTO RЄX ·, T–T (monogram of Otto) / + · S · VVLT' · DЄ LVCA ·, facing Lo Volto Santo (Christ the King). Grierson, Coins of Medieval Europe 244; CNI XI 7; MIR 118/119 (obv./rev.); Biaggi 1062. Deep cabinet tone. EF.


From the Richard A. Jourdan Collection of Medieval European Coins, purchased from Charles H. Wolfe, III, 1998.