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Auction: 22004 - The Jean-Marie Vanmeerbeeck and Simon English Esq. Collections of English Hammered and Milled Coins
Lot: 154

(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 Rijder / Franc à cheval (Cavalier d'Or), 1361-1364, Gent or Mechelen, LVDOVIC .' DEI | GRA : COMES : Z | DNS : FLADRIE, armoured Knight on horseback vaulting left, rampant lion on caparison, rev. + XPC : VINCIT : XPC : REGNAT : XPE IHPERAT, cross tréflée and feuillue within quadrilobe, trefoil fleurée at end of each arc, trilobe in spandrels, 3.84g [59.2grns], 1h, m.m. cross pattée (Vernier 10-11 this coin; Elsen 27; Delmonte 458; Gaillard 212; Fb. 156 [99]), traces of doubling to peripheries, otherwise handsomely lustrous and lightly toned, a most attractive extremely fine

Provenance
Jean Elsen, Sale 23 (Brussels), 14 December 1991, lot 722
From the Vernier Collection

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

Sold for
£4,800

Starting price
£2000