Extremely Rare Neapolitan Issue for Provence

CNG 88, Lot: 1857. Estimate $500. Sold for $1400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

FRANCE, Provincial. Provence (comté). Jeanne I de Naples (Jeanne d’Anjou) & Louis de Tarente. 1349-1362. AR Gillat (25mm, 3.44 g, 5h). + LODOV · Є · IOҺ(An) · DEI G · IҺR · Є · SICIL’ · RЄX, Louis seated facing on throne decorated with lions, holding lis-tipped scepter and orb / + COmЄS Є · COmЄSA PVICЄ · FORCҺAQE, short cross potent over voided cross fleurée, with lis in each angle. Duplessy, Féodales 1662; Poey d’Avant -; Rolland 74 var. (legends); CNI XIX 30 (same obv. die) var. (rev. legend). VF, toned. Clear legends. Extremely rare.

Ex Seaby Coin and Metal Bulletin 386 (July 1950), no. E743.

Attributed to Naples in CNI, this piece has since been attributed to Provence, one of the French possessions during Jeanne and Louis’ joint reign.