Two Superb Examples of Gothic Coinage

Sale: Triton X, Lot: 981. Estimate $10000.  Closing Date: Monday, 8 January 2007.  Sold For $19000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

FRANCE, Royal. Philippe IV le Bel (the Fair). 1285–1314. AV Chaise d’or (6.86 g, 5h). Struck 1303. + PhILIPPVS DEI GRA FRANChORVM REX (triple annulet stops), Philippe seated facing on ornate Gothic throne, lis-tipped scepter in right hand and lis in outstretched left; all within tressure of seven arches; each arch ending in lis; trefoil in spandrels / + XPC VINCIT XPC REGNAT XPC IMPERAT (triple annulet stops; Ns retrograde), ornate cross fleurée with central four petalled flower, bars end in lis flanked by leaves; lis in quarters; all within quadrilobe with arches ending in trefoils, crowns in spandrels. Duplessy 209; Dieudonné 222; Laufaurie 213; Ciani 195; Friedberg 253. Superb EF. Exceptional strike from fresh dies.

From the Collection of a California Gentleman. Ex Maison Palombo 2 (30 April 2005), lot 147.