Choice St. Louis Gros

Sale: Triton X, Lot: 980. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 8 January 2007.  Sold For $500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

FRANCE, Royal. Louis IX (Saint Louis). 1226–1270. AR Gros Tournois (4.13 g, 10h). Struck 1266-1270. +BHDICTV: SIT: HOmE: DHI: nRI: DEI: IhV. •XPI/+LVDOVICVS • REX (triple pellet stops), short cross pattée / + TVRONVS• CIVIS (pellet in N), châtel tournois; border of twelve lis, pellets flanking upper lis. Van Hengel L34.01 var. (no pellets flanking lis); Duplessy 190B; Dieudonné 17; Lafaurie 198A; Ciani 181; Roberts 2451-2453. EF, toned.

From the Collection of a California Gentleman.