349, Lot: 629. Estimate $200. Sold for $120. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

FRANCE, Provincial. Orléans (comté). Hugues. Circa 1010-1025. AR Denier (21mm, 1.27 g, 3h). + D–I DEXTRΛ BE, two towered city gate; H to left, V within gateway, retrograde G to right, O above / + ΛVRELIΛNIS CIVITΛ, cross pattée. Cf. Legros 91 (for type attributed to time of Thierry II to Odolric); Fécamp, pp. 186-7; Duplessy, Féodales, 522; Poey d’Avant –. VF, toned.

From the Joseph R Lasser Collection for the benefit of The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, purchased from Wade Hinderling, 5 April 2010.