Gros - John the Baptist 1st type ND

Reverse

Luxemburgish shield with lion crowned on the left, posed on a patted cross, long, dividing the legend, pearled circles inside and outside

Script: Latin (uncial)

Lettering: MOnET ― A✿ NOVA ― FCA'✿ L ― VCEnB'✿

Lettering (regular font): MONET ― A✿ NOVA ― FCA'✿ L ― VCENB'✿

Translation: New currency struck in Luxembourg

Edge

Plain

Comment

Undated gros, part of the first issue of John of Bavaria (1419 - 1424), also called "Beyersgroschen" or "Nuwegroschen", struck at the Luxembourg mint. This Gros remains in circulation until the sixteenth century.

The references Probst L#191-1 and L#192-1 as well as those of Bernays and Vannerus BV#190 and BV#191 have been grouped under the same sheet for the simple reason that it is the same type and that these varieties are insignificant. Weiller's choice was respected. Probst differentiates his two types by the griffin's neck (small neck for the L#191-1 and long neck for the L#192-1) and Bernays and Vannerus by the O's enclosing human faces (BV#190 without faces and BV#191 with faces). The type BV#191 corresponds to the type Weiller#182 d.

Weiller lists 72 copies whose weight varies greatly. The average weight is 2.49 g. The lowest value of 2.05 g. and the heaviest piece of 2.85 g.

Very large number of legend and punctuation variants. The legend of obverse knows 11 different variants, including one (Weiller#181 d./x) where the O of the legend contains a human face. 16 variants known for the reverse, the type Weiller#181 x / f. also has human faces in the letters O. 30 different combinations of obverse/reverse legends have been inventoried (Weiller, p. 96)

Some sales:

• Heidelberger M. Auc. 53 l.785
  

• Heidelberger M. Auc. 61 l.665
  

• Heidelberger M. Auc. 63 l.505
  

• Elsen Auc. 111 l.849
  

• Elsen Auc. 118 l.886
  

• Elsen Auc. 127 l.1018
  

• CGB v22_0982
  

• Spink Auc. 16005 l.1718
  

• Numis.be Auc.2, l.1882
  

• iNumis Auc. 17 l.1678
  

• Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH Auc. 143 l.1211
  

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