Nice Porcine Issue Noble

CNG 109, Lot: 893. Estimate $6000. Sold for $5500. 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; all within double polylobe with trefoils in spandrels. 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.

Ex ‘The Property of a Gentleman’ (Rasmussen FPL 27, Spring 2015), no. C4; Rasmussen FPL 5 (Spring 2004), no. 111.

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