Triton XVIII, Lot: 1508. Estimate $750. Sold for $1300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

FRANCE, Royal. Jean II le Bon (the Good). 1350-1364. BI Piefort Gros Tournois à la queue (30mm, 13.16 g, 6h). Paris mint. Struck 1357. + BIИI[DICTV’] SIT nOmЄ’ DHI’ nRI IhV’XPI’/(crown) IOhAnn ES (horizontal ermine) REX, Latin cross pattée; triple pellet stops / (crown) TVRONVS • CIVIS, châtel tournois within border of twelve lis. Cf. Duplessy 300 (for type); Ciani 384; Lafaurie 303e; cf. Roberts 2521 (for type). VF, minor roughness, flan flaw on obverse edge at 11 o’clock. Very rare.

From the Michael Joffre Collection.