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CNG 87, Lot: 1617. Estimate $1000.
Sold for $1100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

FRANCE, Royal. Louis XIV le Roi Soleil (the Sun King). 1643-1715. AV Louis d’or aux huit L et aux insignes (26mm, 6.59 g, 6h). Paris mint. Dated 1701. LVD · XIIII · D · G (star) FR · ET · NAV · REX (scallop), laureate head right; I70I below / CHRS REGN VINC IMPER (double clover), crowned cruciform double-L monogram around central A in annulet; scepters in each quarter. VG 253; Duplessy 1443A; Ciani 1805; Friedberg 436; KM 334.1. Near EF, underlying luster, some light brush marks. Overstruck on uncertain earlier issue.