LOT 3494
Crusader States. Cyprus (Lusignan Kingdom), Hugh IV AR Gros. 1324-1359.
Uncertain mint in Cyprus. ҺVG[VЄ?] RЄI DЄ, King seated facing on throne decorated with lions, crowned, holding lis-tipped sceptre with his right hand and globus cruciger with his left; B to left, jewel hanging on chain around King's neck / ✠ IЄRU[S]AL'ᙏ Є D CҺIPR ✤, cross of Jerusalem with square centre; crosses in each quarter part. M&P -; Metcalf -; cf. CCS 69. Very Fine. Apparently unpublished variant with B on obverse, U in IЄRU[S]AL'ᙏ and quatrefoil after the end of reverse's legend. With suspension loop.(4.65gr, 24mm, 4h.).
ProvenanceFrom the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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LOT 3494
Crusader States. Cyprus (Lusignan Kingdom), Hugh IV AR Gros.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £72
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France, Provincial. Valence (Bishophric), Anonymous AR Denier. 12th-13th century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
✠ S APOLLINARS, short cross pommée; annulet in fourth quarter / ✠ VRBS VALENTIAI, angel with spread wings, resembling an eagle. Duplessy, Féodales 2255. 0.95gr, 17mm, 6h.
Near Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Unattributed Germanic Tribes AV Solidus. Late 5th century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,040
Possibly Gallic mint. In the name of Marcian (AD 450-457). D N MARCIA-INVS P F AVC, helmeted, pearl-diademed and cuirassed facing bust, holding spear in right hand and shield on left arm / VICTORI-A AVCCCЄ, Victory standing to left, holding in right hand long voided jewelled cross, star in right field; COИOB in exergue. Unpublished in the standard references, for other imitative issues in the name of Marcian cf. Depeyrot 89 (Imitations) = J.M. Fagerlie, Late Roman and Byzantine Solidi found in Sweden and Denmark, NNM 157 [1967], pl. XVI, 377; CNG-Triton 11, 2008, 1076 = Baldwin 47, 2006, 227; Gorny & Mosch 134, 2004, 3339. For prototype cf. RIC X 509; MIRB 5 (Constantinople). 4.23gr, 19mm, 6h.
Good Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Crusaders, Antioch. Anonymous AE 18mm. Time of Levon I of Armenia, 1198-1219.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £338
Crusader to right on horseback, holding pennon / A-N-T-O; large cross pattée. Metcalf, Crusades 483; CCS 136 (see p. 234, note 43 for attribution to Sis mint under Levon I). 1.05gr, 18mm, 12h.
Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
