Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 1787. Estimate $100.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

FRANCE, Provincial. Lyon (archevêché). Anonymous issues. 12th-13th centuries. AR Denier (1.21 g, 8h). + PRIMA SЄDЄS, large cruciform L / + GALLIARVM, cross pattée. Poey d'Avant 5032; Boudeau 1130; Roberts 4032. Near EF, toned.

From the Leonard O. Greenfield Collection.

Lyon (Lugdunum during Roman times) was Christianized from very early on, and was the first Christian chapter of its kind in Gaul, Bishop Agobard serving as the city’s first bishop in 816. The archbishop received the title Primas Galliae from Pope Gregory VII in 1079