Italian States, Toscana (Tuscany, Grand Duchy). Cosimo I de' Medici AR Testone. 1570. ✶ COS • MED • MAGNVS • DVX • ETRVRIÆ, bust to right / S • IOANNES • BAPTISTA •, St John the Baptist seated facing, date below. Pucci 99g (this coin); CNI 266-70; Galeotti LXIV, 1-8; MIR 168/1. 9.00g, 31mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine. Rare.
This coin published in A. Pucci, Le Monete della Zecca di Firenze epoca Meddicea. Cosimo I (Firenze, 2011);
From the Vitangelo Collection, collector's ticket included.