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Auction 49  5 Oct 2021
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Lot 1099

Starting price: 640 GBP
Price realized: 1150 GBP
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Anglo-Gallic, Henry, Earl of Lancaster, (c. 1310 - 1361), coinage of Bergerac, silver gros tournois à la couronne avec léopard, struck on a large flan, short cross pattée, legend around in two lines, rev. châtel tournois, pellet atop spire, border of 13 arches with leaves (Elias 135a, this coin), a fragile specimen, ragged edge and holed, about fine and excessively rare
*ex Edward Elias Collection (lot 237); purchased Crédit de la Bourse, 1977.
The coin is struck in imitation of the gros tournois à la couronne avec leopard from Aquitaine. Elias notes three varieties, and four specimens in all.
(800-1200 GBP)
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