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[[Image:SB924-75403o.jpg|300px|thumb|Stack's Bowers September 2024 Collectors Choice sale, lot 75403]]
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This specimen was lot 75403 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice sale (Costa Mesa, CA, September 2024), where it sold for $85. The catalog description<sup>[1]</sup> noted, "[[Ragusa|RAGUSA]]. Grosetto, 1651. NGC MS-64. Obverse: St. Blase standing facing, holding crozier and raising hand in benediction; Reverse: Christ standing facing, holding orb and raising hand in benediction; all within mandorla of stars. Rather crudely struck, but nevertheless flashy and lustrous. The only example seen for the date in the NGC census." The Republic of Ragusa was a Christian enclave on the eastern coast of the Adriatic Sea. In the eighteenth century, it was an independent city-state surrounded and protected by the Ottoman Empire, which ruled most of the Balkans. Ragusa was occupied by French troops in 1805 and annexed by Austria in 1814. This obscure type was struck 1626-32, 1635, 1642-67, 1676-1716, 1720-28, 1748, 1751-57 and 1761. The later dates are priced higher than the earlier dates. The SCWC states, "Varieties exist", which we don't doubt.

The figure on the reverse is St. Blaise, of which Wikipedia comments, "Blaise of Sebaste (Armenian: Սուրբ Վլասի, Surb Vlasi; Greek: Ἅγιος Βλάσιος, Hágios Blásios; Latin: Blasius martyred 316 AD) was a physician and bishop of Sebastea in historical Lesser Armenia (modern Sivas, Turkey) who is venerated as a Christian saint and martyr. Blaise is...the patron saint of wool combers and of sufferers from ENT illnesses. In the Latin Church, his feast falls on 3 February. In the Eastern Churches, it is on 11 February. According to the ''Acta Sanctorum'', he was martyred by being beaten, tortured with iron combs, and beheaded."

''Recorded mintage:'' unknown.

''Specification:'' billon.

''Catalog reference:'' KM-5.

''[[Bibliography|Source:]]''
* Cuhaj, George S., and Thomas Michael, ''Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1601-1700, 6th ed.,'' Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2014.
* <sup>[1]</sup>Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, ''September 2024 World Collectors Choice Online Auction,'' Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers Galleries, Inc., 2024.

''Link to:''
* [[Ragusa 1646 grosetto]]
* [[Ragusa 1725 tallero Dav-1635|1725 tallero]]
* [[Ragusa 1731 1/2 tallero|1731 half tallero]]
* [[Coins and currency dated 1651]]

[[Category:Selections from the Stack's Bowers 2024 Collector's Choice sale]]

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 This specimen was lot 75403 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice sale (Costa Mesa, CA, September 2024), where it sold for $85. The catalog description<sup>[1]</sup> noted, "[[Ragusa|RAGUSA]]. Grosetto, 1651. NGC MS-64. Obverse: St. Blase standing facing, holding crozier and raising hand in benediction; Reverse: Christ standing facing, holding orb and raising hand in benediction; all within mandorla of stars. Rather crudely struck, but nevertheless flashy and lustrous. The only example seen for the date in the NGC census." The Republic of Ragusa was a Christian enclave on the eastern coast of the Adriatic Sea. In the eighteenth century, it was an independent city-state surrounded and protected by the Ottoman Empire, which ruled most of the Balkans. Ragusa was occupied by French troops in 1805 and annexed by Austria in 1814. This obscure type was struck 1626-32, 1635, 1642-67, 1676-1716, 1720-28, 1748, 1751-57 and 1761. The later dates are priced higher than the earlier dates. The SCWC states, "Varieties exist", which we don't doubt.
-The figure on the reverse is St. Blaise, of which Wikipedia comments, "Blaise of Sebaste (Armenian: Սուրբ Վլասի, Surb Vlasi; Greek: Ἅγιος Βλάσιος, Hágios Blásios; Latin: Blasius martyred 316 AD) was a physician and bishop of Sebastea in historical Lesser Armenia (modern Sivas, Turkey) who is venerated as a Christian saint and martyr. Blaise is...the patron saint of wool combers and of sufferers from ENT illnesses. In the Latin Church, his feast falls on 3 February. In the Eastern Churches, it is on 11 February. According to the ''Acta Sanctorum'', he was martyred by being beaten, tortured with iron combs, and beheaded."
+The figure on the reverse is St. Blaise, of which Wikipedia comments, "Blaise of Sebaste (Greek: Ἅγιος Βλάσιος, Hágios Blásios; Latin: Blasius martyred 316 AD) was a physician and bishop of Sebastea in historical Lesser Armenia (modern Sivas, Turkey) who is venerated as a Christian saint and martyr. Blaise is...the patron saint of wool combers and of sufferers from ENT illnesses. In the Latin Church, his feast falls on 3 February. In the Eastern Churches, it is on 11 February. According to the ''Acta Sanctorum'', he was martyred by being beaten, tortured with iron combs, and beheaded."
 ''Recorded mintage:'' unknown.
-''Specification:'' billon.
+''Specification:'' 0.43-0.66 g, billon, 15-19 mm diameter.
 ''Catalog reference:'' KM-5.
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 ''Link to:''
-* [[Ragusa 1646 grosetto]]
+* [[Ragusa 1646 grosetto|1646 grosetto]]
-* [[Ragusa 1725 tallero Dav-1635|1725 tallero]]
+* [[Ragusa 1653 grosetto|1653 grosetto]]
 * [[Coins and currency dated 1651]]
 [[Category:Selections from the Stack's Bowers 2024 Collector's Choice sale]]

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