Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 2325. Estimate $15000.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $12000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-GALLIC. Henry VI, as king of France. 11422-1453. AV Angelot (2.34 g, 4h). Saint-Lô mint; mm: lis. Struck 1427-1449. hENRICVS : FRANCORV : ET : ANGLIE : REX, archangel Gabriel above coats-of-arms of France and England / XPE : VINCIT : XPE : REGNAT : XPE : IMPERAT, plain cross with lis and leopard flanking. Elias 277; Duplessy 444; Poey d'Avant 3178. Superb EF. Extremely rare. A masterpiece of medieval die engraving. ($15,000)

The angelot, valued as two-thirds of the salut, was struck in miniscule quantities; surviving mint records indicate less than a thousand were struck in any one year at the six mints producing them. The skilled engraver of these dies created a miniature masterpiece using simple but well-balanced design elements.