CNG 108, Lot: 1142. Estimate $3000. Sold for $4250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PLANTAGENET. Edward III. 1327-1377. AV Noble (34mm, 7.81 g, 2h). Fourth coinage, Post-Treaty period, Group I. Calais mint. Struck 1369-1377. (annulet) ЄD WΛRD : DЄI : G : RЄ·X · ΛnG · Z · FRA : DnS : hУB · Z · AQ T (double and single salitre stops), Edward standing facing in ship, holding sword and shield; ornaments -11-11, ropes 3/3, quatrefoils 4/4, lis 4; crescent on forecastle / + IhC : ΛVTЄm : TRΛNSIЄNS : PЄR : mЄDIV : ILLORVm : IBAT, voided short cross potent over cross fleurée, pellets flanking top and bottom lis; in each angle, crown over lion passant over voided trefoil; at center, retrograde C within quadrilobe; all within polylobe, with trefoils in spandrels. Lawrence 5 (this coin illustrated on pl. XX, 1); Doubleday 299; Schneider –; North 1279; SCBC 1522/1508. Good VF, struck from slightly worn dies. Very rare.

A seldom encountered Noble struck shortly after the rupture of the Treaty of Bretigny in June 1369 and resumption of hostilities between England and France. In BNJ 24 (1943), C. A. Whitton argued that this coin was part of an improvised issue at the Calais mint using a London obverse die that bore Edward III’s restored title as king of France paired with an old Treaty period reverse die.