Roma Numismatics Ltd
Auction XX 29-30 Oct 2020
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France, Kingdom. Jean II le Bon (the Good, 1350-1364) AV Franc à cheval. Paris mint, struck from 5 January 1360. ⚜ IOҺANЄS : DЄI : GRACIA : FRANCORV : RЄX, Jean, crowned and in full armour, holding sword and riding to left on caparisoned horse / ✠ XPC * VIꞂCIT * XPC * RЄGNAT * XPC * IMPЄRAT, cross tréflée and feuillue; • within quadrilobed at centre; all within quadrilobe, trefoil fleurée at end of each arc; trilobe in each spandrel. Duplessy 294; Ciani 361; Lafaurie 297; Friedberg 279. 3.75g, 26mm, 10h.
Good Very Fine.
Acquired from Jean Vinchon Numismatique & Phidias.
Grierson (Coins of Medieval Europe, 1991) notes that the Franc à cheval was a new type introduced for Jean II in 1360, "having as its type the king charging into battle on a richly caparisoned horse. The name was applied to the coin because it was by its use in paying his ransom the king [captured by the English at the Battle of Poitiers] became free (franc)."
Good Very Fine.
Acquired from Jean Vinchon Numismatique & Phidias.
Grierson (Coins of Medieval Europe, 1991) notes that the Franc à cheval was a new type introduced for Jean II in 1360, "having as its type the king charging into battle on a richly caparisoned horse. The name was applied to the coin because it was by its use in paying his ransom the king [captured by the English at the Battle of Poitiers] became free (franc)."