Pisa 1621 tallero Dav-4196
This specimen was lot 21131 in Stack's Bowers 2018 NYINC sale (New York, January 2018), where it sold for $1,020. The catalog description[1] noted, "ITALY. Pisa. Tallero, 1621. Cosimo II de'Medici (1608-20). NGC MS-63. Single finest graded for the date at NGC with none graded at PCGS. RARE in this state of preservation. Considerable luster displaying even gray tone with golden and blue highlights. Decent strike with good definition of the fine details, though a little weak on the duke's face. The Florentine republic, a leader of the Renaissance, collapsed in the early 1500's under economic decline, foreign invasion and internal strife. To keep the region out of the hands of the Spaniards, the emperor converted the republic into a grand duchy and awarded it in 1530 to the Medici family, who held it until its extinction in 1737." Pisa, after a long career as an independent city state in the Middle Ages, fell under Florentine domination in Renaissance times. After the Florentine republic collapsed, Pisa became part of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany, ruled by the Medicis until 1723. The type is listed in the SCWC for 1621 only, the year of the duke's death.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: silver.
Catalog reference: Dav-4196, KM-16.4.
- Cuhaj, George S., and Thomas Michael, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1601-1700, 6th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2014.
- [1]Ponterio, Richard, Kyle Ponterio, John Kraljevich and Cris Chatigny, The January 2018 NYINC Sale: Ancient Coins, World Coins & Paper Money, featuring the Eldorado Collection of Colombian and Ecuadorian Coins, Santa Ana, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2017.
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