Low Countries

CNG 100, Lot: 868. Estimate $1500. Sold for $1000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LOW COUNTRIES, Brabant (hertogdom). Johanna van Brabant. 1355-1405. AV Pieter d’or (27mm, 4.07 g, 4h). Leuven (Louvain) mint. Struck 1355-1383. + WЄnCЄLΛVS (retrograde 7) IOhΛnΛ DЄI GRΛ BRΛB DVCЄS, half-length bust of St. Peter facing, holding Gospels and keys; all with tressure of nine arches; each arch ending in lis; trefoils in spandrels; single and double saltire stops / + XP’C VIИCIT XP’C RЄGИΛT XP’C IИPЄRΛT, voided ornate cross fleurée, with central rosette, and each crossbar ending with quadrilobe surmounted by lis-tipped staff flanked by tendrils; double annulet stops. Delmonte, Or 45; Delmonte, Brabant 199; De Mey 225; Friedberg 11. VF, toned.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams. Ex Superior (18 June 1976), lot 2052.