CNG 111, Lot: 1094. Estimate $6000.
Sold for $7500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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PLANTAGENET. Edward III. 1327-1377. AV Léopard d’or (28.5mm, 3.65 g, 2h). Bordeaux mint. Third issue, authorized July 1357. + ЄDVVARDVS : DЄI : GRA : ANGLIЄ : FRANCIЄ : RЄX, crowned leopard passant left, head facing, within tressure of ten arcs; quatrefoils at end of each arc and in spandrels; double quatrefoil stops / + XP’C VInCIT XP’C RЄGNAT XP’C IMPЄRAT, cross fleurée with ornate central rosette within angled quadrilobe; leopards passant in quarters, quadrilobes in spandrels; double quatrefoil stops. Beresford-Jones,
Anglo-Gallic 25/36; AGC 44 1/b; Elias 39a; Schneider –; SCBC 8039. Good VF, toned, obverse slightly off center. Rare.
Ex Arthur M. Fitts III Collection (Dix Noonan Webb 102, 18 September 2012), lot 2371.
