★ Grierson C16 ★

FRANCE, Royal. Jean II le Bon (the Good). 1350-1364. AV Mouton d’or (31mm, 4.62 g, 11h). Paris mint. Authorized 17 January 1355. + AGn DЄI QVI TOLL PCCA mV’DI mISЄRЄRЄ nOB, agnus Dei standing left, head upturned right; behind, banner flying from ornate cruciform staff; IOh’ RЄX below; all within tressure of fourteen arcs; pellet-in-annulet stops / + XP’C VIИCIT XP’C RЄGИAT XP’C IMPЄRAT, cross tréflée and feuillue, and fleurdelisée; in center of cross, cinqfoil within angled quadrilobe; lis in quarters; all within angled quadrilobe; in spandrels, lis flanking angles. Grierson, Coins of Medieval Europe, p. 115 and C16 ; Duplessy 291; Ciani 354; Lafaurie 294; Friedberg 280. Toned. EF.

From the Richard A. Jourdan Collection of Medieval European Coins. Ex Münzen und Medaillen AG 95 (4 October 2004), lot 239.