347, Lot: 644. Estimate $100. Sold for $190. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

FRANCE, Royal. Jean II le Bon (the Good). 1350-1364. AR Gros à l’étoile (27mm, 3.45 g, 11h). Struck 1360. [+ BnDI]T[V] SIT nOmЄ DnI [nRI DЄI IhV XPI]/+ IOhΛnnЄS (pellet-in-quadrate) DEI [...] GRΛ •, cross pattée; spur rowel in second and third quarters / (spur rowel) MOnЄTA (double quadrate annulet) DVPLЄX (double quadrate annulet) ALBA, • IOhS/FRACO/REX • in three lines; pellet above hS; border of twelve or thirteen lis. Cf. Duplessy 308C (for type); cf. Ciani 414 (same); cf. Roberts 2622 (same). Near VF, toned, areas of weak strike.

From the Michael Joffre Collection.