Sale: CNG 67, Lot: 2018. Estimate $4000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 22 September 2004.  Sold For $3000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Edward III. 1327-1377. AV Noble (7.66 gm). Fourth coinage, Treaty Series, Group a, struck 1363-1369. London mint. Edward standing facing in ship, holding sword and shield; double saltire stops, mm: saltire / Ornate cross with lis at ends, E in center, surrounded by crowns and lions; double saltire stops. Schneider 75; North 1231; SCBC 1502. Choice EF, well struck on a magnificent full flan. ($4000)

The gold Noble was introduced by Edward III in 1344. The impressive design of the king standing in a medieval ship with furled sale and a banner flying from the masthead was the largest English gold coin of its time. It circulated for the next 150 years with little design change. It circulated widely in Europe as was later much imitated by the mintmasters in the Lowlands.