CNG 87, Lot: 1612. Estimate $300. Sold for $650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

FRANCE, Royal. Henri III. 1574-1589. AV Écu d’or au soliel (25mm, 3.20 g, 1h). Nantes mint. Dated 1587. HENRICVS · III · D : G · FRANC · ET · POL · REX 1587, crowned coat-of-arms; below, T above two pellets / (rosette) CHRISTVS · REGNAT · VINSIT (sic) · ET · IMPERAT, cross anillée, with central pellet-in-quadrilobe and lis at each end. Duplessy 1121A; Ciani 1408; Friedberg 386. VF, lamination on the reverse.

From the John H. McWhinney Collection.