Gros au Lion – Ex de Wit and Elias

Triton XVIII, Lot: 1811. Estimate $1500. Sold for $2500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-GALLIC. Edward III. 1327-1377. BI Gros au lion (27mm, 3.11 g, 5h). Bordeaux mint. Struck circa 1360. EDO VΛR DVS REX/ + BnDICTV : SIT : nOMЄ : DnI : nRI : DЄI (triple pellet stops), long cross pattée / + MOnЄTΛ · BVRD’ (slipped trefoil stop), lion rampant left; all within tressure of twelve arches containing leaves. SCBC 8072; Elias 74 (this coin illustrated); Duplessy, Féodales 1079; Elias Collection 148 (this coin); Boudeau 494; Poey d'Avant 2816. Good VF. Rare.

From the Michael Joffre Collection. Ex G.W. de Wit Collection (Künker 121, 12 March 2007), lot 412; E.R. Duncan Elias Collection (Spink 77, 21 June 1990), lot 148, purchased 1977.