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Auction: 22004 - The Jean-Marie Vanmeerbeeck and Simon English Esq. Collections of English Hammered and Milled Coins
Lot: 160

(x) The Jean-Marie Vanmeerbeeck Collection of English and Flanders Medieval and Tudor Coins | Flanders, Louis II de Male (1346-1384), New Gouden Schild 'met de leeuw' / Ecu d'Or au Lion, Gent or Mechelen, LVDOVICVS : DEI x | x GRA x | COM .' F : DON : FLAND ', Count enthroned facing, holding sword and resting hand on coat-of-arms emblazoned with Rampant lion, inside tressure of seven arches, angular trefoils in spandrels, rev. XPC : VINCIT : XPC : REGNAT : XPC : INPERAT, double annulet stops, retrograde roman Ns, cross tréflée and feuillue within quadrilobe, trefoil fleurée at end of each arc, trilobe in spandrels, 4.50g [69.0grns], 10h, m.m. cross pattée (Martiny, Gent, 48; Elsen 38; Delmonte 466; Gaillard 218; ), a trace of striking softness, otherwise attractively round and lustrous, a pleasing extremely fine

Provenance
F de Clippel, 62 Avenue, Duc Jean-Ganshoren, 23 January 1965

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

Sold for
£2,400

Starting price
£1200