CNG 100, Lot: 669. Estimate $1500. Sold for $1800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

FRANCE, Provincial. Comtat-Venaissin. Julius II. Pope, 1503-1513. AV Écu d’or au soleil (27mm, 3.30 g, 2h). Avignon mint; Georges d’Amboise, papal legate. Struck 1503-1510. Draped coat-of-arms surmounted by tiara; smaller coat-of-arms to right / Cross fleurée. Duplessy, Féodales 1860a; Poey d'Avant 4279; Muntoni 78; Friedberg 41. VF, a few marks, small central flan crack. Very rare.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams. Ex John Work Garrett Collection (Part III, NFA/Leu, 29 March 1985), lot 992, purchased from Schulman, 31 October 1922.