Watch List notes:

Italian States, Frinco(?). Anonymous imitative BI 1/2 Leeuwendaalder. Circa 1581-1795. MOERGNROGN ✠ - EOEGNEDIN ✠, armoured knight standing behind shield bearing lion rampant / ✠ ONEIDENRDNON' OE' MOVEIVNREGL, lion rampant to left. Unpublished in the standard references, for similar types from the mints of Correggio, Mirandola and Novellara. cf. C. Gamberini di Scarfèa, Le imitazioni e le contraffazioni nel Mondo IV.1, Bologna 1972, 642-4; for other imitative /2 Leeuwendaalders cf. CNG = Triton XVIII, 6 January 2015, lot 1658 (Northern Europe 'Halve daalder') and Heritage Auctions Europe / MPO Auctions 46, 20 May 2015, lot 4088 (North Italian States - '½ LionThaler'). 13.28g, 34mm, 1h.

Good Fine. Extremely Rare.

From the Vitangelo Collection.