CNG 100, Lot: 2142. Estimate $2000. Sold for $3250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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FRANCE, Royal. Charles VI le Bien-Aimé/le Fol (the Well-Beloved/the Mad). 1380-1422. AV Agnel d’or (25mm, 2.54 g, 4h). Paris mint. Authorized 21 October 1417. + AGn’ DЄI QVI TOL’L PЄCAT mVDI mIS’Є nOBIS,
Agnus Dei standing left, head upturned right, wearing nimbus crown and cradling banner on long cross fleurée; k : F RX below; pellet beneath 18th letter; double annulet stops / + XPC VInCIT XPC’ RЄGИAT XPC IHPЄRAT, cross fleurée with star in angled quadrilobe at center and lis in each quarter; all within double linear angled quadrilobe; lis in all spandrels but last containing triple pellets; pellet beneath 18th letter; star stops. Cf. Duplessy 372C2 (for type); cf. Ciani 498 (same); cf. Lafaurie 400 (same); Friedberg 290; cf. iNumis (8 December 2014), lot 17 (for rev.). EF, toned. Well struck on a broad flan.
From an early 20th century collection, with ticket in French labeled no. 345. Ex E. Gariel Collection (M. H. Hoffmann, 27 April 1885), lot 1692.