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Auction 49 5 Oct 2021
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Anglo-Gallic, Henry, Earl of Lancaster, (c. 1310 - 1361), coinage of Bergerac, silver gros tournois à la couronne, HEN COM LANCE, long cross pattée, rev. + DNS BRAGAIRACII, châtel tournois, pellet in annulet either side (Elias 127b), weakly struck and short of flan, but good fine and the only recorded specimen
*ex Edward Elias Collection (lot 226); purchased Crédit de la Bourse, 1977.
Following the taking of Bergerac in August 1345, Henry of Lancaster, Edward III's Captain-General and Lieutenant in Aquitaine, was rewarded with a license to mint coins in the town of Bergerac, to keep the profit from their production and, most importantly, to display his own name on them - not that of the King.
(1200-1500 GBP)
*ex Edward Elias Collection (lot 226); purchased Crédit de la Bourse, 1977.
Following the taking of Bergerac in August 1345, Henry of Lancaster, Edward III's Captain-General and Lieutenant in Aquitaine, was rewarded with a license to mint coins in the town of Bergerac, to keep the profit from their production and, most importantly, to display his own name on them - not that of the King.
(1200-1500 GBP)