IONIAN ISLANDS, Septinsular Republic. Under Russian-Ottoman supremacy. 1800-1807. 5 Gazzettai 1801 (Copper, 33 mm, 22.48 g, 12 h), Corfu, denomination in Italian, edged with a chain-pattern. ΕΠΤΑΝΗΣΟΣ ΠΟΛΙΤΕΙΑ ✱ The winged lion of Saint Mark holding Book of Gospels surmounted by 7 arrows representing the 7 Ionian islands. Rev. -5- / GΑΖZΕΤE / ✱1081✱ in three lines, with the date engraved retrograde; the whole within circular chain border. Karamitsos I.4a. Lambros 6 (same dies), KM 3. Graded by NGC "AU details / rev. damage". Cert number: 2909008-005.
From the El-Greco Collection of Modern Greek Rarities and from the collections of D. Loulakakis and J. Lambros.