Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 1777. Estimate $100.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $170. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

FRANCE, Provincial. Bourgogne (duché). Jean I sans peur (the Fearless). 1404-1419. AR Briquet (2.96 g, 6h). Auxonne mint. Struck 1412-1419. + IOhAnЄS : DVX : BVRGVnDIЄ (double trefoil stops), coat-of-arms of Bougogne; pellet under the first letter / + SIT : nOmЄ : DnI : BЄnЄDICTV (double crescent stops), Cross pattée; lis and lion rampant in alternating quarters; pellet under the first letter. Dumas-Dubourg 14-5-2; Poey d'Avant 5723; Boudeau 1224; Roberts 7821. VF, toned.

From the Leonard O. Greenfield Collection.

Involved in the power struggle with Louis, the duke of Orléans, during the reign of his afflicted nephew, Charles VI, Jean attempted to establish his power through marriage, while his nephew Louis tried to gain the favor of his sister-in-law, queen Isabeau. Jean, however, succeeded in his plots against Louis, having him brutally assassinated in the streets of Paris in 1407 and later garnered the favor of the king. During the escalating tensions with Henry V and the English, Jean set himself as a mediator and safely removed himself from further conflict, attempting to work both sides for his own benefit. His traitorous deeds, however, were uncovered by the dauphin, Charles, who organized Jean’s assassination at Montereau.