347, Lot: 677. Estimate $100. Sold for $190. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

FRANCE, Provincial. Metz (évêché). Civic issues. 14th-16th centuries. AR Gros (26mm, 3.06 g, 9h). S STEPh’ P ROThO m (quadrilobe), St. Étienne kneeling left; civic coat-of-arms of Metz to left and right; manus Dei above; star stops / (shield) BИDICTV’ SIT nOmЄ’ DИI nRI IhV XPI/GRO SSV S (rosette) m ETE, cross pattée; star in quarters; annulet stops. Robert p. 213, 4; Boudeau 1659-60; Roberts 8932. VF, lightly toned.

From the Michael Joffre Collection.