CNG 108, Lot: 1144. Estimate $7500. Sold for $8000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PLANTAGENET. Richard II. 1377-1399. AV Noble (40mm, 7.73 g, 10h). Type IIC, ‘porcine’ style. Calais mint. RIC ΛRD : DЄI : GRΛ : RЄX : ΛnGL : DnS : hYB : 7 : AQVIT (double saltire stops), Richard standing facing in ship; flag at stern, voided quatrefoil over sail, ornaments 1-1-1-1, ropes 3/1, quatrefoils 4/4 / + IhЄ : AVTЄM : TRΛnSIЄnS : PER : mЄDIVm : ILLORVM : IBΛT (double saltire stops), ornate cross with lis at ends and small R in center; crowned lion over trefoil in each quarter. Schneider 155 (same dies); North 1307(1); SCBC 1661. Good VF, small mark on obverse. An excellent example of this rare and distinctive ‘porcine’ type.

Struck from an obverse die first used at London (cf. Schneider 154), then altered for use at Calais with the addition of a flag.