425, Lot: 692. Estimate $75. Sold for $130. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

FRANCE, Provincial. Déols. Raoul VI. 1160-1176. AR Denier (18mm, 0.68 g, 3h). + RADVLFVS, cross pattée / + DEDOLIS (S horizontal and retrograde), pentalpha; annulet in center. Legros 1352 var. (S not horizontal); cf. Duplessy, Féodales 679 var. (same); Poey d' Avant 1949 var. (same); Boudeau 277 var. (same); cf. Roberts 4411. VF, toned. Rare variety.

From the BRN Collection, purchased from Andy Singer, January 2008.

Raoul VI was the last direct member of the early dynasty at Déols that came to prominence under Ebbes the Noble and his son, Raoul the Great, in the early-mid 10th century. Little is known about Raoul VI, other than that he died in 1176 while returning from a crusade in the Holy Land. In the aftermath of his death, Déols became one of the territories contested between the Angevins under Henry II, who had taken custody of Raoul’s three-year-old daughter, and the French king Philip II.