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348, Lot: 789. Estimate $100.
Sold for $60. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

FRANCE, Provincial. Metz (évêché). Civic issues. 16th-17th centuries. AR Gros (24mm, 2.06 g, 1h). 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. Cf. Robert p. 213, 4 (for type); Boudeau 1660; Roberts 8934. Near VF, toned, areas of weak strike, some spots of hard green.


From the Michael Joffre Collection.