Rare First issue for Charles VI

CNG 94, Lot: 1693. Estimate $2000. Sold for $2300. 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 (28mm, 4.03 g, 2h). 1st emission, 11 March 1385. crowned coat-of-arms; pellet between top two lis; double saltire stops / + XPC VIHCIT XPC REGHΛT XPC IHPERΛT, cross fleurée with central rosette within angled quadrilobe, lis in angles; crown in spandrels; star stops. Duplessy 369; Ciani 484-5; Friedberg 291. EF, minimal trace of deposits on reverse, slightly ragged flan. Well struck.