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Triton XXIII  14-15 Jan 2020
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Lot 1217

Estimate: 2500 USD
Price realized: 4500 USD
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SWITZERLAND, Kanton Bern. Bern. AR Guldiner (41mm, 28.71 g, 1h). Dated 1494. (double annulet) SΛnCTVS (rose) VIn CЄNCIVS (rose) 1494, St. Vincent standing left, holding quill and Gospel book, within ornate quadrilobe / Bear advancing left; double eagle and seven coats-of-arms above; twenty coats-of-arms around. Grierson, Coins of Medieval Europe, p. 207; Geiger 42; Coraggioni pl. 8, 14; Levinson V-17. Toned, scratch on reverse. VF. Rare.


From the Richard A. Jourdan Collection of Medieval European Coins.

Among the earliest imitations of the new large silver Guldiners and Half Guildiners issued by Archduke Sigismund in the Tyrol (see lot XXX) were those of neighbouring Bern in Switzerland.
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