15th century AD or later. A circular bronze die to strike the reverse of coins imitating the gold ducats series of Venice; possibly from India. Obv: series of curved lines. Rev: uncertain or garbled legend around standing figure within vesica surrounded with four stars. Cf. Ives, Herbet E., The Venetian Gold Ducat and its Imitations, NNM 128, ANS, New York, 1954, p.29 and pl.XIV for examples of coins struck from such dies. 28.13 grams, 27mm (1"). Property of a Guernsey collector; acquired in the UK in the early 1990s. The Venetian gold ducat (or zecchini) coins circulated very widely from their inception under doge Giovanni Dandalo (1280-1289 AD); they were extensively copied around the Mediterranean region, including in Rhodes, Chios and the Levant but also as far afield as India due to trading between Europe and that country, the ducats having reached there from as early as the 15th century AD. [No Reserve]

Fine condition.