Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 1781. Estimate $100.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $110. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

FRANCE, Provincial. Lorraine (duché). Charles II. 1390-1431. BI Denier (0.79 g, 9h). Sierck-les-Bains mint. + kAROLVS · DVX · LOThOR’ (annulet stops), coat-of-arms of Lorraine / mOnETA · In · SIERk (annulet stops), sword facing downward; rose to left and right. De Saulcy pl. VIII, 7; Roberts 9373; Boudeau 1486. Good VF.

From the Leonard O. Greenfield Collection.

Following the assassination of Jean I by the dauphin Charles and his ensuing feud with Jean’s son, Philippe, Charles II took a proactive approach in retaining his interests in Lorraine by allying himself with the dauphin against Philippe, who held the territories surrounding Lorraine. Furthering his alliances, he married his daughter, Isabella, to René d’Anjou, later the king of Naples.