271, Lot: 164. Estimate $30000. Sold for $30000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ITALY, Papale (Stato pontificio). Paulus V (Camillo Borghese). 1605-1621. AV Quadrupla (31mm, 13.40 g, 12h). Rome mint. Dated RY 3 (1608/9). · PAVLVS · V · PONT · A · III ·, bust left, wearing zucchetto and mantum / S · PAVLV S · AL MA · ROMA ·, S. Paolo seated slightly left, head right, wearing nimbus crown and holding reversed sword; mintmaster’s mark to lower left. CNI XVI 132; Muntoni 2/1; Serafini 564; Berman 1537; Friedberg 100; KM 49. EF for issue, lustrous. Extremely rare.

Property of Princeton Economics acquired by Martin Armstrong. Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 14 (9 October 1998), lot 1091; Kunst und Münzen XXI (14 May 1980), lot 389.