CNG 85, Lot: 1347. Estimate $500. Sold for $850. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

FRANCE, Royal. Louis XVI. 1774–1793. AV Louis d’or à la tête nue (23mm, 7.66 g, 6h). Nantes mint; M. Fr. J. Thomas, mintmaster; Louis-Salomon Poirier, engraver. Dated 1786. Head left; mintmaster’s mark below / Crowned conjoined coats-of-arms of France and Navarre; mintmark below shields; engraver’s mark and date in legend. VG 361; Duplessy 1707; Ciani 2183; Friedberg 475. Superb EF, lustrous, reverse struck with slightly worn die.