From the Elias Collection

Triton XVIII, Lot: 1823. Estimate $2000. Sold for $1600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-GALLIC. Henry of Lancaster. As Earl of Lancaster, 1347-1351. BI Gros tournois au léopard au-dessus (21.5mm, 1.55 g, 4h). Bergerac mint. + hЄnR COm LΛnC/ [+ BnDICTV :] SIT : nOmЄ [: DnI : nRI : DЄI] (double annulet stops), short cross pattée; secret marks: pellet on L / DnS BRΛGΛRΛCI, châtel tournois with cross on spire and crescent flanked by annulets within; above, leopard to left; all within tressure of eleven arches containing leaves. SCBC 8109; Elias 129i; Elias, Bergerac 4.10.1 = Elias Collection 234 (this coin); Duplessy, Féodales 996B; Boudeau –; Poey d'Avant –. VF, toned, areas of weak strike, some ghosting. Very rare.

From the Michael Joffre Collection. Ex E.R. Duncan Elias Collection (Spink 77, 21 June 1990), lot 234; John D. Brand Collection.