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LOT 3497
France, Provincial. Valence (Bishophric), Anonymous AR Denier. 12th-13th century AD.
✠ S APOLLINARS, short cross pommée; annulet in fourth quarter / ✠ VRBS VALENTIAI, angel with spread wings, resembling an eagle. Duplessy, Féodales 2255. Near Very Fine.(0.95gr, 17mm, 6h.).
ProvenanceFrom the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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LOT 3497
France, Provincial. Valence (Bishophric), Anonymous AR Denier.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
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Crusaders. Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem, Baldwin III BI Denier. 1143-1163.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
BALDVINVS RЄX, cross pattée / ✠ DЄ IЄRVSALЄM, tower of David. Cf. Metcalf, Crusades 150. 1.14gr, 17mm, 9h.
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 Unpublished in the standard references, for other imitative issues in the name of Marcian cf.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. Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem, Baldwin III BI Denier. 1143-1163.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
'Rough' coinage, series 3. BALDVINVS RЄX, cross pattée / ✠ DЄ IERVSALЄM, tower of David. Metcalf, Crusades 153-153A; CCS 15. 0.73gr, 17mm, 9h.
Near Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
