Sale: Triton X, Lot: 982. Estimate $10000.  Closing Date: Monday, 8 January 2007.  Sold For $13000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

FRANCE, Royal. Philippe VI de Valois (of Valois). 1328-1350. AV Pavillon d’or (5.06 g, 12h). Struck 1339. PhILIPPVS DEI GRA FRANChORVM REX (triple annulet stops), Philippe, pointing upward with right hand and holding lis-tipped scepter in left, seated facing on draped throne with sides in the shape of lions under open tent, inside decorated with lis; tent topped by lis / + XPC VINCIT XPC REGNAT XPC INPERAT (double annulet stops; annulet after initial cross; first 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 251; Dieudonné 509; Laufaurie 254; Ciani 270; Friedberg 266. EF, trace of underlying luster. Stuck from fresh dies.

From the Collection of a California Gentleman. Ex Münzen und Medaillen 95 (4 October 2004), lot 235.