CNG 100, Lot: 1104. Estimate $7500. Sold for $12000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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ANGLO-GALLIC. Edward the Black Prince. As Prince of Aquitaine, 1362-1372. AV Hardi d’or – Guyennois (27mm, 3.98 g, 8h). Bordeaux mint. Struck circa 1368–1371/2. + ЄD’ · PO’ · GnS · RЄGIS · ΛnGLIЄ · PnS · ΛQITΛNIЄ (rosette stops), half-length figure of Edward facing, wearing fillet and holding sword and raising hand in benediction / + : ΛVXILIVm · mЄVm · Λ · DOmInO · B : (rosette stops), arched cross quernée, with quatrefoil at center and leopards and lis alternating in angles; all within tressure of arches. Bereseford-Jones,
Anglo-Gallic 261/268; Elias 161; Elias Collection 250; Schneider 60 var. (number of arches on obv.); Duplessy,
Féodales 1122; Poey d'Avant 2938. Good VF. Rare.
From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams. Ex Moriera Collection (Superior, 31 May 1988), lot 221A.