Rare Mint

Sale: Triton X, Lot: 985. Estimate $2500.  Closing Date: Monday, 8 January 2007.  Sold For $2000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

FRANCE, Royal. Charles VI le Bien-Aimé/le Fol (the Well-Beloved/the Mad). 1380-1422. AV Agnel d’or (26mm, 2.55 g, 11h). Saint-André de Villeneuve-lès-Avignon mint. First emission, struck 1417. + AGn DEI QVI TOLLIT PECA mVDI mISE nOBIS (double annulet stops), Agnus Dei (Lamb of God) standing left, head right within polylobe; banner on standard with trefoil cross around central annulet behind; pellet below 20th letter / + XPC VINCIT XPC REGNAT XPC INPERAT (rosette stops; Ns retrograde), cross fleurée with central rosette within angled quadrilobe; lis in quarters and spandrels, pellet below 20th letter. Duplessy 372; Ciani 496; Friedberg 290. EF, area of beautiful brick-red patina. A rare mint for this issue.