Watch List notes:

FRANCE, Provincial. Provence (comté). Robert I de Naples. 1309-1343. AR Gros dit Gillet (23mm, 2.42 g, 12h). + · RO · IhR · SICIL RЄX ·, crowned and mantled bust left; mantle decorated with lis / + COMЄS : PROVINCIЄ :, cross feuillue; quadrilobe in center. Cf. Grierson, Coins of Medieval Europe 347 (for a gigliato of Robert I); Rolland 46; Duplessey, Féodales 1639 var. (obv. legend); Poey d'Avant 3994 var. (same); Künker 217, lot 2460 (same dies, but earlier die state). Toned, hint of die rust. VF. Extremely rare, the Künker coin the only specimen in CoinArchives.


From the Richard A. Jourdan Collection of Medieval European Coins, purchased from Charles H. Wolfe, III, 1997. Ex Crédit de la Bourse (26 April 1993), lot 1455.