CNG 87, Lot: 1613. Estimate $500. Sold for $1900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

FRANCE, Royal. Pretender coinage. Charles Cardinal de Bourbon. As King Charles X, 1589-1590. AV Écu d’or au soliel (27mm, 3.32 g, 5h). Posthumous issue. Troyes mint. Dated 1591. CAROLVS · X · D · G · FRANC · REX · 1591, crowned coat-of-arms; S below / + CHRISTVS · REGHAT · VINCIT · ET · IMPERAT · (lis), cross anillée, with central pellet-in-quadrilobe and lis at each end. Duplessy 1172; Ciani 1481; Friedberg 389. VF, toned. Rare and historically interesting.

From the John H. McWhinney Collection.