Sale: CNG 72, Lot: 2690. Estimate $250.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 June 2006.  Sold For $280. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-GALLIC. Richard I, “the Lionhearted”. As Duke of Aquitaine, 1172-1189. BI Denier (0.82 g, 6h). Bordeaux mint. ACIR (retrograde)/SVDR (retrograde) in two lines across field; cross above, w-like ornament below / +AGVITANIE (N retrograde), cross pattée. Elias 4d var. (rev. legend); Poey d’Avant -. VF, lightly toned, porous. Rare with Richard’s name retrograde, this variety with the N retrograde on the reverse is unpublished.