Watch List notes:

ITALY. Venezia (Venice). Ludovico Manin, 1789-1797. Zecchino (Gold, 21 mm, 3.42 g, 10 h). LVDOV MANIN / DVX / S M VENET St. Mark standing to right, his right hand raised in benediction, holding book of Gospels and presenting long cross to the doge kneeling to left. 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. Fr. 1445. Montenegro 3320. Areas of weakness, otherwise, good fine.


From the collection of Pierre & Gertrud Matthey, formed from the 1970s to the 1990s.