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Auction: 16005 - Ancient, British and Foreign Coins and Commemorative Medals including European Coins from the Peter Woodhead Collection
Lot: 1312

Anglo-Gallic, Edward II (1307-27), Obole au léopard, 0.35g, leopard passant to left, m b below, rev. cross pattée within inner circle, crown in second angle (Elias 110a; WF 26C-2b; S.8029), about very fine

provenance
Ex McCarthy collection, CNG, May 1, 1997, lot 3080
A rare type but very rare subtype with crown in second angle. The mb denier and obole types have been reassigned from Edward III to Edward II based on hoard evidence. See: Galata pp. 37 and 192 - Sauternes Hoard; and Marc Bompaire "Datation de deux monnaies d'Edouard II duc d'Aquitaine grâce à deux trovailles" for Saint-Pierre des Cuisines de Toulouse Hoard.

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