Exceptional Leopard d’Or

Sale: Triton X, Lot: 1480. Estimate $10000.  Closing Date: Monday, 8 January 2007.  Sold For $20000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-GALLIC. Edward III. 1327-1377. AV Leopard d’or (3.63 g, 2h). Aquitaine mint. Third issue, struck July 1357. +EDWARDVS DEI GRA ANGLIE FRAnCIE REX (double saltire stops; AN ligate), crowned leopard passant left, head facing, within nonalobe; rosettes in spandrels; stars in spandrel above tail / +XPC VInCIT XPC REGHAT XPC IMPERAT (double rosette stops), cross fleurée with ornate central rosette within angled quadrilobe; leopards passant in quarters, quadrilobes in spandrels. Elias 39a; Poey d'Avant -; Duplessy, Féodales, 1051B. Superb EF. Extremely rare in this state.

From the Collection of a California Gentleman. Ex Münzen und Medaillen 95 (4 October 2004), lot 436.