271, Lot: 158. Estimate $20000. Sold for $46000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ITALY, Papale (Stato pontificio). Leo X (Giovanni di Lorenzo de’ Medici). 1513-1521. AV Da due e mezzo ducati (28mm, 8.64 g, 9h). Rome mint. LEO · X · PONTIFEX · MAXIMVS ·, bust left, wearing mantum / LVX · VERA IN · TENEBRIS · LVCET, the three Magi on horseback left, each holding gift and reins, and looking upward to left toward Star of Bethlehem; in exergue, °ROMA° above mintmaster’s mark. CNI XV 1; Muntoni 1; Serafini 1; Berman 628; Friedberg 43. Good VF. Very rare.

Property of Princeton Economics acquired by Martin Armstrong. Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 14 (9 October 1998), lot 1035.