Triton XVIII, Lot: 1517. Estimate $400. Sold for $350. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

FRANCE, Provincial. Normandie (duché). Guillaume II le Conquérant. 1035-1087. AR Denier (18mm, 0.94 g, 10h). Struck in the name of his son, Robert II Curthose. Struck circa 1050-1075. ROB[...] COME(horizontal S), cross pattée; pellets in quarters / Norman-style two-towered cathedral façade; nave decorated with ๘ in pediment, and surmounted by cross on globe; pellet in pediment of each tower; ˝ s flanking nave. Dumas, Group B/C, pl. XIX, 17 = Le Gros 338 corr. (line drawing); Poey d'Avant –; Duplessy, Féodales –; Roberts –; De Wit –; cf. Elsen 121, lot 659 (for type). VF, toned. A very rare and enigmatic coin.