Sale: Triton X, Lot: 1153. Estimate $2500. Closing Date: Monday, 8 January 2007. Sold For $3000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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LOW COUNTRIES, Vlaanderen (Flanders). Lodewijk II van Male (the Bad). 1346-1384. AV Gouden Flanders (4.18 g, 1h). Gent mint. L–VDOVIC´ DEI G´ COm Z DnS FLANDRI–E (double annulet stops), Lodewijk, crowned, in armor, and wearing ermine cape, standing facing, holding sword in right hand and resting left on shield set on ground; to left, crowned and crested helmet set on ground; ornate Gothic arch behind; FLANDRES in exergue / + BENEDICTVS QVI VENIT IN NOmINE DOmINI (double saltire stops; Ns retrograde), ornate cross fleurée with central circle containing lion rampant left; F-L-A-D in quarters; all within quadrilobe; trefoils in spandrels. Delmonte,
Or 464; De Mey 204; Den Duyts -; Friedberg 161. EF, slight ghosting on obverse.
From the Collection of a California Gentleman. Ex Coin Galleries (18 April 2001), lot 666.