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Portugal - D. Fernando I (1367-1383)

Currency:EUR Category:Coins & Paper Money / World Coins - World Start Price:190,000.00 EUR Estimated At:250,000.00 - 300,000.00 EUR
Portugal - D. Fernando I (1367-1383)
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Ouro Meia Dobra Pé-terra SOBERBA
+FERnAnDVS:RE X:PORTVGALI:A Estimate: 250 000.- 300 000.
+FERnAnDVS REX PORTVGALI ALGA
G.91.03; JS Fe.3; F 5; 2,55g.; peq. falha na orla Conhecem-se 5 exemplares, porém Gomes refere variante única.
Ex HSA 1001.1.25829 Huntington Collection
D. Fernando I, meia dobra pe terra (540 dinheiros), Lisbon, the king standing facing, crowned and in full armour, holding sword and leaning on shield bearing five besants, within Gothic portico, small crosses in fields to left and right, rev., floriate cross within quadrilobe, small arms on hexalobe in centre, rosettes in spandrels, some double-striking, particularly in the legend, almost as struck, exceedingly rare.
The meia dobra pe terra is rarer still than the dobra pe terra, and is very seldom if ever offered for sale. There was no example in the Leu sale of 1992, the Pinto de Magalhães collection, or the Shore collection of 1945. Gomes states that there are five known examples, including the present specimen - two varieties with a plain central escutcheon on the reverse (two examples recorded of each variety), and this variety with a pointed escutcheon, which is described as unique. The present example is the specimen illustrated by Gomes as 91.03, and by J. Ferraro Vaz, Numária Medieval Portuguesa, pp. 418 and 419, Volume II, 1960.