Watch List notes:

FRANCE, Provincial. Arles. Étienne de la Garde. 1351-1361. AV Florin (20mm, 3.43 g, 6h). (mullet) S · AREL' ARChP ·, large ornate lily / S(tower), St. John the Baptist standing facing, raising hand in benediction and holding cruciform-tipped scepter. Cf. Grierson, Coins of Medieval Europe 250 (for prototype issue of Firenze [Florence]); Duplessy, Féodales, 1746B; Poey D'Avant 4108; Gamberini 681; Friedberg 24. Hint of deposit, a couple of light marks. VF.


From the Richard A. Jourdan Collection of Medieval European Coins, purchased from Renaissance Coin, 2018 Chicago Coin Exposition. Ex New York Sale XLIII (10 January 2018), lot 1038.