Watch List notes:

CRUSADERS, Knights of Rhodes (Knights Hospitaller). Hélion de Villeneuve. 1319-1346. AR Gigliato (26mm, 3.88 g, 3h). + · FR · ЄLIOn · D' · VILA · nOVЄ · DI GRA mR, Grandmaster kneeling left before patriarchal cross on three steps / + : OSPTL' · S' · IOhIS · IRLnI · 9T · RODI, cross fleurée; each bar ending in shield with arms of the Order of St. John. Grierson, Coins of Medieval Europe 390; Schlumberger, pl. IX, 17; Metcalf, Crusades 1175-1180 and 1182; CCS 4. Toned, minor edge split. EF. Wonderful strike for issue.


From the Richard A. Jourdan Collection of Medieval European Coins, purchased from Charles H. Wolfe, III, CICF 1997.