Unique Dombes Teston

Triton XVIII, Lot: 1515. Estimate $20000. Sold for $20000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

FRANCE, Provincial. Dombes. Marie de Bourbon-Montpensier. 1608-1627. AR Teston (30mm, 9.80 g, 12h). + MARIA · P · DOMBAR · D · MONTISP · I, half-length bust left, wearing pierced coif and ornate collar / + DNS · ADIVTOR · ET · REDEM · MEVS · I6II, crowned Bourbon coat-of-arms; to either side of shield, M with crown above. Divo, Dombes, 125 (this coin); Duplessy, Féodales, 2966; Poey d’Avant –; Boudeau –. Near EF, toned. Unique.

Ex Felix Couchard Collection (Weil, 27 January 2006), lot 207; Collection H[enri] M[eyer] (Rollin & Feuardent, 26 May 1902), lot 1944.