389, Lot: 933. Estimate $500. Sold for $850. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

FRANCE, Royal. François I le Pére et Restaurateur des Lettres (the Father and Restorer of Letters). 1515-1547. AV Écu d’or au soleil (25mm, 3.44 g, 9h). Gênes mint; mm: G. 3rd emission, authorized 21 July 1519. Crowned coat-of-arms; sunburst above / Cross fleurée, with polylobe in center; crowned Fs in second and third quarters. Duplessy 771A; Ciani 1071; Friedberg 342. Good VF, slightly wavy flan.

From the J. Eric Engstrom Collection. Ex RARCOA (15 March 1985), lot 212.