Watch List notes:

GERMANY, Halberstadt (Bistum). Gero von Schermbke. 1160-1177. AR Bracteate (28mm, 0.77 g). Body of St. Stephen entombed right beneath nine stones and curved arch reading S–STЄPHANVS PROT; three angels above / Incuse of obverse. Grierson, Coins of Medieval Europe 176; Kestner 1297-1302; Bonhoff 463-4; Löbbecke 30. Deep cabinet toning. Good VF.


From the Richard A. Jourdan Collection of Medieval European Coins. Ex Pegasi 29 (5 November 2013), lot 837.