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Auction: 13039 - World Coins and Commemorative Medals
Lot: 419

(x) Italy, Venice, Alvise II Mocenigo (1700-09), Osella, anno VII (1706), struck in gold 'da 4 Zecchini', 13.87g, s m v aloysivs mocenigo d, St Mark seated, handing standard to Doge who kneels before him, *b*g*, for Bernardo Gritti, in exergue, rev. emergit. vigilante leone, war galley, the Lion of St Mark at the stern holding a sword and a standard, *an.vii* in exergue (CNI.120; P.359), light crease, good very fine, rare

The reverse shows one of the three Venetian war galleys stationed on Lake Garda. the obverse, with initials of mintmaster Bernardo Gritti, is that of the Osella for the next year, anno VIII (1707). This shows that these coins, although struck at the mint from official dies, were struck 'to order' for the nobility.

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