271, Lot: 159. Estimate $10000. Sold for $37500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ITALY, Papale (Stato pontificio). Leo X (Giovanni di Lorenzo de’ Medici). 1513-1521. AR Quarto di ducato – Triplice giulio (33mm, 9.76 g, 7h). Rome mint. ° LEO ° DECIMVS ° PONTIF ° MAX ° IMVS (trefoil annulet stop), bust left, wearing mantum / ◊ PACEM ◊ MEAM ◊ DO ◊ VOBIS ◊ ◊, Christ standing right, wearing nimbus crown and blessing the Twelve Apostles kneeling left; mintmaster’s mark to outer right; ◊ROMA◊ in exergue. CNI XV 54; Muntoni 18/1; Serafini 14-5; Berman 636 (this coin illustrated). VF, a few marks under old cabinet tone. Extremely rare.

Property of Princeton Economics acquired by Martin Armstrong. Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 14 (9 October 1998), lot 1037.