Watch List notes:

FRANCE, Provincial. Comtat-Venaissin. Time of Popes Clement VI-Gregory X, 1342-1378. Florin (Gold, 20 mm, 3.53 g, 7 h), Avignon. •S•IOHA-NNES•B• St. John the Baptist standing facing, raising his right hand in benediction and holding cruciform scepter in his left; to upper left, papal tiara. Rev. SANT• - PETRH• Florentine lily. Duplessy 1782 (mid 14th century). Friedberg 27 (John XXII). Muntoni 2 (Urban V). A sharply struck and really fine example. Extremely fine.


From a Swiss collection, formed since the 1970s.