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Auction 21004  17 Jan 2021
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Lot 17

Starting price: 3500 GBP
Price realized: 3800 GBP
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Richard II (1377-1399), Noble, Type IIIC, Calais, RICA | RD : DI : GRA : REX : ANGL : Z . FRANC : DNS : HIB Z AQ, French title resumed, double saltire stops, King standing in ship, holding sword and shield, trefoil stops, lion on rudder, additional pellet above and below shield, ropes 3/1, ornaments 1-1-1-1, quatrefoils 4/4, rev. + IhC .' AVTEM : TRANSIENS : PER : MEDIVM : ILLORVM : IBAT, double saltire stops, floriate cross, crowned leopards in angles, large R in centre, 7.05g, 2h, i.m. cross pattée (Isladulcie -; Schneider I, 180 same dies [cf. 174 for same die in unaltered state]; Clarendon 435; Broughton 410; Webb-Ware 3c; N.1307[2] var.; Spink 1663), clipped slightly small, otherwise a most pleasing coin of competent fine workmanship, very fine, the altered dies type extremely rare with only two previous examples offered at global public auction this millennium!.

Estimate: £4,000 - £5,000
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