CNG 100, Lot: 776. Estimate $2000. Sold for $2100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ITALY, Mantova (Duchi). Guglielmo I Gonzaga. 1550–1587. AV Scudo (25mm, 3.31 g, 6h). Struck 1550-1575. Crowned coat-of-arms / Female, holding pyx, seated on personification of the Mincio River. CNI IV 9; Friedberg 532. VF, toned, planchet flaw, lightly creased. Rare.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams, purchased from M. Louis Teller, May 1983.