Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 1783. Estimate $100.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $220. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

FRANCE, Provincial. Lorraine (duché). René II. 1473-1508. AR Demi-plaque (1.87 g, 2h). Nancy mint. RЄnATVS : ∂ : G : R : SI : IЄ : LO’ : ∂ (double saltire stops), crowned ducal coat-of-arms / (cross of Lorraine) FЄCIT : POTЄnCIAm : In : BRAChIO : S (double saltire stops), armored arm, wielding sword, emerging from clouds. De Saulcy pl. XIV, 1; Roberts 9482; Boudeau 1500. Good VF, toned.

From the Leonard O. Greenfield Collection.

The grandson of René I d’Anjou, René II secretly allied with Louis IX, against Charles le Téméraire (the Rash), the duke of Bourgogne, when the latter began to establish garrisons in Lorraine shortly after René received the appanage. Driven from Nancy, René soon retook the city with an army of Swiss mercenaries later that year in 1476. He was averted, however, in his quest to gain the crown of the kingdom of Naples by Charles VIII.