349, Lot: 628. Estimate $500. Sold for $525. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

FRANCE, Provincial. Blois (comté). temp. Thibaud I le Tricheur (the Trickster). 922/8-975/8. AR Denier (20mm, 1.40 g, 3h). Blesianiscastro (Blois) mint. Struck circa 940-950. Abstract diademed and mantled bust right; • on cheek and to right of bust / + BLESIANISCASTRO, cross pattée. P. Crinon, “A propos de deniers inédits de Blois (Xe siècle): le monnayage à la tête dans led domaines de Thibaud de Tours et Thibaud Ier (durant les deux premiers tiers du Xe s.), BSFN 48.1 (January 1993), pp. 467-472; Legros 936; Fécamp 6925 var. (rev. legend) ; cf. Duplessy, Feodales, 572 (for type); Poey d’Avant –. VF, toned. Rare.

From the Joseph R Lasser Collection for the benefit of The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, purchased from Wade Hinderling, 27 May 2010. Ex Tkalec (7 May 2009), lot 256.