412, Lot: 775. Estimate $500. Sold for $650. 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 Écu d’or à la couronne (29mm, 4.01 g, 3h). Paris mint. Authorized 11 March 1385. Crowned coat-of-arms / Cross fleurée, with star in center and inward-facing lis in each angle; all within double polylobe, with crown in each angle. Duplessy 369; Ciani 484-5; Friedberg 291. EF, minor hairline die break on obverse.
From the Norman Frank Collection, purchased from Andy Singer.