Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 1792. Estimate $200.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $425. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

FRANCE, Provincial. Metz (évêché). Thiéri V de Boppart. Bishop, 1365-1384. AR Gros (3.39 g, 1h). TIEOD(OR) EPS’ · mETE’ · (rosette stops), bishop standing facing, raising hand in benediction, and holding crozier / + BИDICTV’ · SIT : nOmЄ’ · DИI’ · nRI · IhV’ · XPI’ ·/GROSVS mETES (annulet and double annulet stops), cross pattée. Robert 1; Boudeau 1641; Roberts -. Near EF, lightly toned.

From the Leonard O. Greenfield Collection.

A protégé of Charles IV, Thiéri de Boppart, then bishop of Worms, was placed at the head of the church at Metz by Pope Urban V in 1365. An aggressive prelate, he, like his predecessor, was fond of residing at Vic-sur-Seille, though coinage does not appear to have been struck for him there.