CNG 93, Lot: 1442. Estimate $500. Sold for $650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CRUSADERS, Principality of Achaea. Robert de Taranto. 1333-1364. AV Ducato (21mm, 3.54 g, 12h). Uncertain mint. (horizontal retrograde S)/N/V/Є/N/Є/T/I D/V/X ΛZЭRDΛNDVO, St. Mark standing right, holding Gospels and presenting banner containing four pellets to Doge kneeling left / ZIT T XPЄ DΛDTV ROIZ IZT.Є D.VCΛTT, Christ standing facing, raising hand in benediction and holding Gospels, surrounded by elliptical halo containing four stars to left, five to right. Cf. Ives pl. XIII; cf. Schlumberger p. 21 (additions) and pl. XXI, 19-22; cf. Gamberini 344; Friedberg 38a var. (K on obv.); CNG Inv. 867519 (same dies). Superb EF, minor trace of deposit on edge of obverse near feet of St. Mark.