Edward the Black Prince
ANGLO-GALLIC. Edward the Black Prince. As Prince of Aquitaine, 1362-1372. AV Noble guyennois à la rose – Pavillon d'or (32mm, 5.37 g, 7h). Bordeaux mint. Struck 1362(?). ЄD : PO : GnS : RЄG ΛnGL : PnPS : ΛQI (double rosette stops), Edward wearing rose wreath, standing facing, holding sword up in right hand and raising left hand; at feet, two leopards couchant; to left and right, two ostrich feathers with tips curved right; all within ornate Gothic portico / + DnS : ΛIVTO : Z : PTЄCIO : mЄ : Z : IIPO : SPAVIT : COR : mЄVm : B (double voided quatrefoil stops), ornate cross quernée with rose in center, lion passant and lis in opposite quarters; all within arched quatrefoil set on quadrate frame with roses in angles; pelleted trilobes in spandrels. AGC 154B, 8/g; Elias 149a; cf. Schneider 40-1 (for type); SCBC 8123. Small punch on obverse. Good VF. Rare.
Ex David C. Bianchi II Collection; Heritage 61253 (16 January 2022), lot 99060; Künker 264 (24 June 2015), lot 3152.
'Under Edward III and his son Edward, the Black Prince, who was created Prince of Aquitaine in 1362, the [Anglo-Gallic] coinage became for a time one of the most splendid of medieval France. If the early gold coins, florins and ecus a la chaise, were no more than copies, the later ones are largely original in design: leopards, guiennois, pavillons and hardis, some of these showing the prince pointing to the sword he holds with exactly the same significant gesture as, on the royal d'or the king of France points to his sceptre.' Grierson, p.147
