Watch List notes:

FRANCE, Provincial. Besançon (libre ville imperiale). nomine Charles V. Holy Roman Emperor, 1500-1558. AV Double pistole d'or (30mm, 13.22 g, 11h). Posthumous issue, dated 1582. Laureate head right / Nimbate double-headed eagle with coat-of-arms on breast; crown above. Duplessey, Féodales 3045 (Quadruple pistole); Poet d'Avant 5398 var. (date); Boudeau –; Friedberg 73. Good VF, toned. Very rare.


From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams. Ex Bowers & Merena (23 March 1988), lot 137.