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Auction: 22004 - The Jean-Marie Vanmeerbeeck and Simon English Esq. Collections of English Hammered and Milled Coins
Lot: 155

(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), Golden Lion / Gehelmde Gouden leeuw / Lion d'Or heaumé, 10 February 1365 - 5 August 1370, Gent, LV | DOVICVS : DEI : GRA : COM '° Z : DNS : FLANDR | IE, helmeted lion standing left in front of spired Gothic throne, FLANDRES in exergue, rev BENEDICTVS : QVI : VEHIT : IN : NOMINE : DOMINI, cross fleurée and feuillue, D' at centre, F L A N in angles, all within tressure of twenty arcs, 5.40g [82.6grns], 8h, m.m. cross pattée (VH/Saunders 265; Elsen 28; Delmonte 460; Gaillard 214; Fb. 157 [101]), a broad and fully round striking, lustrous and handsomely choice, extremely fine

Provenance
C Pire (Brussels), March 1985

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

Sold for
£5,200

Starting price
£3000