Lot 00242

IONIAN ISLANDS, Septinsular Republic. Under Russian-Ottoman supremacy. 1800-1807. 5 Gazzettai 1801 (Copper, 33 mm, 22.44 g, 6 h), Corfu, denomination in Greek, edged with a chain-pattern. ΕΠΤΑΝΗΣΟΣ ΠΟΛΙΤΕΙΑ ë The winged lion of Saint Mark holding Book of Gospels surmounted by 7 arrows representing the 7 Ionian islands. Rev. ë5ë/ ΓΑZΕΤΑΙΣ / -1801- in three lines; the whole within a circulat chain border. Karamitsos I.4c. Lambros 7 (same dies), KM 2. Graded by NGC “AU 55 BN”. Top pop in NGC and PCGS. Cert number: 2909008-004.

From the El-Greco Collection of Modern Greek Rarities.