Triton XVII, Lot: 996. Estimate $3000. Sold for $4000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

FRANCE, Royal. Charles IV le Bel (the Fair). 1322–1328. AV Royal d’or (26mm, 4.15 g, 9h). Paris mint. Struck 16 February 1326. KOL RЄX FRA’ COR’, Charles standing facing within ornate Gothic archway, wearing crown and holding lis-tipped scepter (annulet stops) / + XP’C VInCIT XP’C RЄGИAT XP’C IMPЄRAT, short cross, with voided quadrilobes in center and at each end, over cross fleurée; all within quadrilobe with lis in each angle and crown in each spandrel; annulet stops. Duplessy 240; Ciani 252; Friedberg 261. EF. Exceptional for issue. Rare.