CNG 93, Lot: 1877. Estimate $500. Sold for $300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PLANTAGENET. Edward III. 1327-1377. AR Groat (27mm, 4.56 g, 10h). Treaty period, series B. London mint; Walter de Bardi, mintmaster. Struck 1363. Crowned facing bust in tressure of arches with trefoils on cusps; annulet on breast / Long cross; three pellets in quarters, pellet at end of R in legend. Potter, Silver, Type 2a, variety 2; Lawrence Class Ig, 34; North 1253; SCBC 1618. VF, toned, minor flan crack. Rare.

Potter notes that the annulet on the breast was adopted as a privy mark by de Bardi upon his reappointment to the Tower on 11 February 1363. However, almost immediately the mark was removed, and placed around the Є at the beginning of the obverse legend, perhaps as the annulet-on-breast had been the conventional privy mark of Henri de Brisele at Calais.