FRANCE, Provincial. Bretagne (duché). Jean IV. 1345-1399. AR Gros à l’écu heaumé (28mm, 2.97 g, 3h). Type I. Rennes or Nantes mint.

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Lot: 97. Estimated: $ 150

The Richard A. Jourdan Collection – World, Silver

Sold For $ 190. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

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FRANCE, Provincial. Bretagne (duché). Jean IV. 1345-1399. AR Gros à l’écu heaumé (28mm, 2.97 g, 3h). Type I. Rennes or Nantes mint. + IOh[AnnЄ]S DV[X] BRITAnIЄ R (or n), crested helmet left on coat-of-arms; all within tressure of arcs; eight-rayed star stops / + DЄVS In ADIVTORIVm mЄV In TЄ DЄ, cross fleurée et trefoilée with six-rayed star in central quadrilobe; saltire stops. Grierson, Coins of Medieval Europe –; Duplessey, Féodales 194-5/197 (obv./rev.); cf. Poey d’Avant ; cf. Roberts 6461. Toned, minor weakness. VF.

From the Richard A. Jourdan Collection of Medieval European Coins, purchased from Charles H. Wolfe, III, 1999.


Closing Date and Time: 25 March 2020 at 10:32:00 ET.

All winning bids are subject to an 18% buyer’s fee.