Watch List notes:

Ragusa (Italian States), 1/2 scudo, 1748 SB, thirteen stars around, PCGS VF detail / cleaned, ex-FNB of Mabel, MN Collection. KM-10. Grainy surfaces but with luster on obverse, the reverse richly toned, a scarce and desirable issue showing St. Blasius on obverse and Christ on reverse. Ragusa today is known as Dubrovnik, in Croatia, but was its own republic under Habsburg Austria, and for all of the 16th to 18th centuries followed Italian tradition and language (hence its numismatic placement under Italian States). Pedigreed to a banker's collection from the early 1900s.

Estimate: $500 - $750