Watch List notes:

ANGLO-GALLIC. Edward the Black Prince. As Prince of Aquitaine, 1362-1372. AV Pavillon d'or – Noble guyennois (32mm, 5.34 g, 11h). First issue. La Rochelle mint. Introduced circa 1362-1363. ЄD : PO : GnS : RЄG Λ nGL : PnS : ΛQVIT (double quatrefoil stops), Edward standing facing within ornate Gothic portico, holding sword; two leopards couchant at feet, four ostrich quills around / + DnS : AIVTO : Z : PTECTO : mЄ : Z : IIPO : SPAIT : COR mЄVm : R (double rosette stops; Ss retrograde), arched cross fleurée, with bars ending in acorns and oak leaves, cinquefoil at center, and leopards and lis alternating in angles; all within arched and angled ornate octolobe, trilobes in spandrels. Grierson, Coins of Medieval Europe 333; Berseford-Jones, Anglo-Gallic –/174; AGC 157A, 6/o; Elias 151; Schneider 44 var. (obv. legend stops); SCBC 8123. Some light ghosting. Toned. Good VF.


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