CNG 108, Lot: 1098. Estimate $2000. Sold for $5500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

THIRTY YEARS’ WAR (Dertigjarige Oorlog), Low Countries. Ariën-aan-de-Leie. Besieged by the French under the command of Charles de la Porte, Marquis de Meilleraye, Maréchal de France, June 1641. AR 2 Pond (22x23mm, 6.54 g). Dated 1641. PHIL. IIII/REX./PATER/PATRIÆ/ARIA OBS./I64I. II in six lines / Blank. Vanhoudt I 463; Mailliet 3; Haeck, Munten 806. In NGC encapsulation, 4212824-003, graded XF 40.

Ex Archer M. Huntington Collection, ANS 1001.1.3481 (Numismatica Genevensis SA VII, 27 November 2012), lot 645.

Located in the County of Artois, which became part of the Spanish Netherlands under the Union of Arras in 1579, Ariën-aan-de-Leie was besieged several times in 1641 by the Spanish and French during the Franco-Spanish War (1635-1659). In June of that year, the Spanish were besieged by French troops under the command of Charles de la Porte, Marquis de Meilleraye, Maréchal de France.