Ragusa 1734 perpero
This specimen was lot 1094 in Stephen Album sale 50 (Santa Rosa, CA, September 2024), where it sold for $480. The catalog description[1] noted, "RAGUSA: Republic, AR perpero, 1734, very nice grade for type, stronger adjustment marks than usual, VF-XF, ex Dr. Robert A. Rosenfeld Collection." One perpero was twelve grossetti or one fifth of a tallero. This type was struck intermittently 1683-1709, 1723-50 and 1801-03. The SCWC marks some dates as scarcer than others but we don't know if there are enough of these around to collect them by date. Ragusa was a Christian enclave on the eastern coast of the Adriatic Sea. At the time, it was an independent city-state surrounded and protected by the Ottoman Empire, which ruled most of the Balkans. St. Blasius appears on the obverse.
Recorded mintage: unknown but scarce.
Specification: 5.7 g, silver, 26-29 mm diameter.
Catalog reference: KM-7.
- Michael, Thomas, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1701-1800, 7th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2016.
- [1]Album, Stephen, Joseph Lang, Paul Montz, Michael Barry and Norman Douglas Nicol, Auction 50, featuring selections from the Dr. Robert A. Rosenfeld Collection, the Hakim Hamidi Collection, the Almer H. Orr III Collection and the Solar Collection, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2024.
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