LOW COUNTRIES, Vlaanderen (Flanders). Lodewijk II van Male. 1346-1384. AV Gouden lam – Mouton d’or (31mm, 4.66 g, 2h). Ghent (Gand) or Mechelen (Malines) mint. Struck 1356-1364. + ΛGn’ : DЄI : QVI : TOLL : P¯CCΛ : mVDI : MISЄRЄRЄ : nOB’ (double annulet stops),
agnus Dei standing left, head upturned right, wearing nimbus crown and cradling banner on long cross fleurée; LVD CO : F’ below; all within polylobe / + : XP’C : VIИCIT : XPC : RЄGИΛT : XPC : IИPЄRΛT (double pellet and double saltire stops), voided cross fleurée over short voided cross potent; at center, cinquefoil within polylobe; eagle in each angle; all within polylobe, with lis in each spandrel. Elsen 26; Delmonte,
Or 457; De Mey,
Flanders 188; Vanhoudt 2601; Den Duyts 166; Friedberg 155. Superb EF, lustrous.
