Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 1771. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

FRANCE, Royal. Charles VI le Bien-Aimé/le Fol (the Well-Beloved/the Mad). 1380-1422. AV Écu d’or à la couronne. Tournai mint. 3rd emission, 11 September 1389. + kAROLVS : DЄI : GRACIA : FRΛnCORVm : RЄX (double saltire stops), crowned coat of arms of France; pellet under sixteenth letter / + XPC · VIИCIT · XPC · RЄGИAT · XPC · IMPЄRΛT (star stops), cross fleurée; lis in alternating quarters and star at center; all within quatrelobe; crowns in angles; annulet under sixteenth letter. Duplessy 369b; Ciani 487; Friedberg 291. In NGC slab, graded AU-55.

Plagued by a disease now believed to be schizophrenia, Charles VI received his nickname le Fol (the Mad) on account of many bouts of madness, the first of which affected him in his early 20’s. As this affliction grew more severe, power slowly shifted back to those who held a great deal of power during Charles’s regency – his uncles, Philippe and Jean, the dukes of Bourgogne and Berry, respectively. Joining this power struggle was Louis I, the duke of Orléans. With this conflict raging, Henry V of England led an invasion into France culminating with the Battle of Agincourt in 1415 and, five years later, Charles signed the Treaty of Troyes, naming Henry as his sole heir, disinheriting his son, the dauphin (later Charles VII), and marrying his daughter to Henry; she bore him a son – Henry VI, the only English king to be de facto king of France until he was driven out by his uncle, the disinherited Charles.