CNG 87, Lot: 1604. Estimate $300. Sold for $425. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

FRANCE, Royal. Louis XI le Prudent (the Prudent). 1461-1483. AV Écu d’or à la couronne (26mm, 3.27 g, 9h). 2nd emission, 4 January 1474. (crown) LVDOVICVS : DЄI : GRΛCIΛ : FRAИCOR : RЄX (double annulet stops), crowned coat-of-arms; crowned lis to left and right / (crown) XPC : VIИCIT : XPC : RЄGИΛT : XPC : ImPЄRAT (double annulet stops), voided cross potent, with central pellet-in-quadrilobe and two flowers at each end; crown in each angle; all within quadrilobe. Duplessy 539A; Ciani 741; Friedberg 312. Good Fine, flan somewhat wavy.

From the John H. McWhinney Collection.