CNG 94, Lot: 1989. Estimate $2000. Sold for $3500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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ANGLO-GALLIC. Henry VI. 1422-1461. AV Salut d’Or (27mm, 3.48 g, 6h). St. Lo mint; mm: lis. Arnoulet Rame, mintmaster. First issue, 1423-1426. The Annunciation: the Virgin, 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, pellet-in-annulet under last letter of legend / Latin cross with lis and leopard passant on either side, h below; all within decalobe, each point ending in lis; star stops, pellet-in-annulet under last letter of legend. Beresford-Jones,
Salutes p. 78, 8 and pl. 1, 12; Elias 271; Poey d'Avant 3184. EF.
From the James Fox Collection. Ex Gallia Collection (Christie’s, 6 October 1987), lot 64.