Two Exceptional Hammered French Issues

Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 939. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Monday, 5 January 2009.  Sold For $900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

FRANCE, Royal. Charles VI le Bien-Aimé/le Fol (the Well-Beloved/the Mad). 1380-1422. AR Gros aux lis sous une couronne (3.72 g, 2h). Paris mint. Struck 1413. + SIT nOmEN DOmInI BEИEDICTVm (double annulet stops), + kL’ DI G FRA’CORV’ REX (triple pellet stops), short cross pattée / x GROSSVS (triple pellet stop) TVRONVS, crowned triple lis; border of twelve lis. Duplessy 384; cf. Ciani; 520; Roberts 2873. EF, toned.

Ex G.W. De Wit Collection; Spink Numismatic Circular CIV.5 (June, 1994), no. 2910.