Sale 9112
Spink America
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17 May 1999
Price realised
USD 1,320
Estimate
Italy, Genoa, Ligurian Republic, 48 Lire, 1801, Year IV, Liguria seated and fasces as above types, (FR 449; CR 33), adjustment marks in field between 11 and 12 o'clock in the obverse, otherwise almost extremely fine for this weakly struck rare three year type
Provenance
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This study for a gorgon in the Beethoven Frieze in Vienna may look familiar — a sister work has recently been promoting a Klimt exhibition in London
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