Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 1826. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $325. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

[Early Dated Collection] LOWLANDS, Utrecht. David de Bourgogne, Bishop. 1455-1496. AR Witpenning (2.23 g, 10h). Deventer mint. Dated 1472. +MONETA NOVA DE DEVENTRIA, coat-of-arms of Deventer, small coat-of-arms below / ANNO DOMIN' M'CCCC LXXII, coat-of-arms of Burgundy on long cross; four annulets in quarters. Frey 143; De Mey 296; van der Chijs pl. XVII, 19. VF, a bit weak. ($300)

From the John Davis Collection.

David de Bourgogne acquired the see of Utrecht through the armed intervention of his father, Philippe le Bon. David enjoyed the perquisites of his seat uninterrupted for some twenty-two years, but after the death of his half brother Charles le Téméraire in 1477, a popular uprising led by Jean de Montfoort expelled him from Utrecht. David organized a counter-revolt, and regained the city in 1482. The province was devastated by the revolt and the subsequent reprisals by the restored prelate. His dated coinage from the mint of Deventer all occurs before the outbreak of the revolt.