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Auction: 22004 - The Jean-Marie Vanmeerbeeck and Simon English Esq. Collections of English Hammered and Milled Coins
Lot: 150

(x) The Jean-Marie Vanmeerbeeck Collection of Numismatic Portraits from Medieval Flanders and Tudor England | Flanders, Louis II of Male, Count of Nevers and Rethel (1346-1384), Gouden Schild met de adelaar / Vieil écu à l'aigle, 1348-1357, Gent or Mechelen, + LVDOVICVS : DEI x | x GRA x | COMES : Z : DNS : FLAD'. Count enthroned facing, inside gothic canopy, holding sword and resting hand on coat-of-arms decorated with eagle, rev. + ° XP'C : VINCIT : XP'E : REGNAT : XP'E IMPERAT, cross tréflée and feuillue within quadrilobe, trefoil fleurée at end of each arc, trilobe in spandrels, 4.46g [69.0grns], 10h, m.m. cross pattée (Vernier 2; De Mey, Flanders 177; Elsen 22; Delmonte 454; Gaillard 207; Fb. 152 [96]), a handsomely uniform and full striking, residually lustrous, near extremely fine

Provenance
Jean Elsen, Sale 23 (Brussels), 14 December 1991, lot 721

Subject to 5% tax on Hammer Price in addition to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium.

Sold for
£4,200

Starting price
£1200