Pope Collection (Crusader States)
Lot 3727 Session 12 (11.30am Friday) Pope Collection (Crusader States)
Estimate $200
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $700
CYPRUS, under Venetian rule (1489-1571), billon carzie under doge Girulamo Priuli (1559-1567), billon seizin under doge Petro Loredan (1567-1570) and AE Famagusta siege coin dated 1570. Very fine or better, scarce and a very interesting lot. (3)
The seige of Famagusta by the Turks saw the minting of a large copper coin to pass as a bezant. This was the last coin struck on the island and the last Cypriot coin till the modern coinage under Queen Victoria, in 1879.(ref: Collect Cyprus Coins, by T. J. Fitikedes, where the story of the siege is given [pp.6]).
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