Watch List notes:

ITALY. Venezia (Venice). Marco Foscarini, 1762-1763. Zecchino (Gold, 21 mm, 3.48 g, 2 h). M•FOSCARENVS - •S•M•VENET St. Mark standing right, holding book of Gospels in his left hand and presenting banner inscribed DVX to doge Marco Foscarini, kneeling to left and raising his head toward the saint. Rev. SIT•T•XPE•DAT•Q•TV REGIS•ISTE•DVCA Christ, nimbate, standing facing in mandorla with sixteen stars, raising his right hand in benediction and holding book of Gospels in his left. Friedberg 1408. Paolucci 1. Light doubling, otherwise, extremely fine.


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