Sale: CNG 78, Lot: 1990. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 May 2008.  Sold For $450. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LOW COUNTRIES, Brabant. Filips I de Schone (the Handsome). 1482-1506. AR Double Briquet (2.85 g, 11h). Antwerpen mint. Dated 1482. Two lions seated vis-à-vis; briquet above / Coat of arms of Austria-Burgundy on cross fleurée. G&H 52-1a; Delmonte, Brabant 352; Levinson II-64a; Frey -. VF, darkly toned, some scratches. Rare.

From the Robert A. Levinson Collection.

This rare coin has the denomination in the legend: DVP PATARD (double patard), which is nearly unknown in early dated coinage.