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LOT 3398
Bulgaria. Second Empire, Ivan Aleksandar, with Michail Asen IV AR Gros. AD 1331-1355. Veliko Turnovo mint.
Christ standing facing before seat, raising hands in benediction; IC XC and monograms across fields / Ivan Aleksandar and Mikhail Asen IV standing facing, each holding cross-tipped sceptre, and holding Christogram-tipped staff between them; monograms across fields. Raduchev & Zhekov Type 1.13.3-6; Youroukova & Penchev 74-80. Near Extremely Fine.(1.06gr, 19mm, 6h.).
ProvenanceProperty of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.
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LOT 3398
Bulgaria. Second Empire, Ivan Aleksandar, with Michail Asen IV AR Gros.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £85
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France, Kingdom. Philippe IV 'le Bel' (the Fair) AR Gros Tournois. Struck after 1295. Gros tournois à l'O rond.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £78
✠ BHDICTV ⁝ SIT ⁝ HOᙏЄ ⁝ DHI ⁝ ꞂRI ⁝ DЄI ⁝ IҺV. XPI in outer margin, ✠ PҺILIPPVS REX in inner margin, short cross pattée / ✠ TVROHVS CIVIS around châtel tournois within border of twelve lis. Ciani 201; Duplessy 213. NGC graded GENUINE (#8230595-002).
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
France. Provincial, Valence (Bishophric), Anonymous AR Denier. 12th-13th centuries AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
✠ VRBS VALЄNTIAI, eagle facing with wings spread / ✠ S APOLLINARIS, short cross pommée; annulet in fourth quarter. Duplessy, Féodales 2255. 0.80gr, 17mm, 6h.
Near Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Crusaders, Epirus (Despotate). Philippe de Taranto BI Denier Tournois. 1294-1313. Lepanto (modern Nafpaktos) mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
✠ (lis) PҺS • P. TAR DЄSP., cross pattée / ✠ (nail) NЄPANTI CIVIS •, château tournois. Cf. CCS 111a; Cf. Metcalf, Crusades 1082. 0.79gr, 19mm, 9h.
Very Fine.
Acquired on the UK art market since the early 2000s. Property of a Lincolnshire gentleman, thence by descent.
