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Auction: 15005 - Ancient, British and Foreign Coins and Commemorative Medals
Lot: 221

Poland, John III Sobieski (1674-96), Coronation, 1676, gold jeton of 2-Ducats, 6.99g, ioannes iii coron in reg. pol. &. m.d.l. 2 feb. 1676, laureate bust right, wearing scaled armour, with lion's face on shoulder, rev. coronatur qvia protexit, crowned buckler above landscape with three towers, 27mm. (cf. H.Cz.2413 in silver, not listed in gold), edge smoothed from a mount (?), very fine, extremely rare

provenance
Purchased 23 October 1960, £59.12/6

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Sold for
£7,000