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223, Lot: 558. Estimate $2000.
Sold for $1500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-GALLIC. Henry VI. 1422-1461. AV Salut d’Or (27mm, 3.48 g, 12h). Rouen mint; mm: leopard. Étienne Marcel, mintmaster. Second issue, 1433-1444. The Annunciation: the Virgin Mary, nimbate, standing facing, receiving tablet inscribed AVE from the Archangel Gabriel standing left; royal coats-of-arms of France and England before; double-pellet stops / Latin cross with lis and leopard passant on either side, h below; all within decalobe, each point ending in lis; star stops. Beresford-Jones, Salutes p. 78, 7 and pl. 1, 15; Elias 270c; Poey d'Avant 3181. Good VF, minor central striking weakness.


The only son and heir of Henry V and Catherine de Valois, and the grandson and heir of Charles VI of France, Henry VI was a person in whom many great expectations were invested, but who, because of his age and mental ill-health, not only precipitated the onset of the so-called “Wars of the Roses”, but also reinvigorated French confidence in the Hundred Years War through English mismanagement and the appearance of Jeanne d’Arc.

Henry VI became king in 1422 with the sudden death of his father, a baby of only nine months. During the king’s minority, a tripartite regency was established, made up of the king’s uncles. By 1424, however, factionalism between the regents began to arise, so that by 1429 when Henry VI achieved his majority, many of the successes of Henry V in France were lost.