Watch List notes:

FRANCE, Provincial. Lorraine (duché). Jean I. 1346-1390. AR Double gros aux deux heaumes – Grand plaque (30mm, 3.78 g, 5h). Nancy mint. Struck before 1372. IOhAnnES : DVX * * MARChIO : LOTh (double saltire stops), sword atop coat-of-arms flanked by helmets surmounted by eagles / + mOnETA : DE : nAnCEIO/ BnDICTV : SIT : NOmЄ : DnI : nRI : DЄI : IhV : XPI (double saltire stops), cross pattée. Flon 413, 12; De Saulcy pl. VI, 13; Bodeau 1468. VF, lightly toned. Very rare.


Ex Elsen 130 (10 September 2016), lot 425, purchased from Münzen und Medaillen AG, Basel, 1969.