Watch List notes:

ITALY. Venezia (Venice). Giovanni Delfino, 1356-1361. Ducat (Gold, 20 mm, 3.47 g, 9 h). IO DЄLPhVNO - •S•M•VЄNЄTI St. Mark standing right, holding book of Gospels in his left hand and presenting banner inscribed DVX to doge Giovanni Delfino, kneeling to left and raising his head toward the saint. Rev. •SIT T•XPЄ•DAT' Q TV RЄGIS•ISTЄ•DVCATO Christ, nimbate, standing facing in mandorla with nine stars, raising his right hand in benediction and holding book of Gospels in his left. Friedberg 1224. Paolucci 32. Good very fine.


From the Serenissima Collection, formed in the 1960s and 1970s.