France
Anglo-Gallic. Henry VI (1422-1461) gold Salut d'Or ND (1435) UNC Details (Bent) NGC, Paris mint, Crown mm, Fr-301, Elias-264j (RR), W&F-385E 1/a (R4). 26mm. 3.47gm. (crown) hЄNRICVS: DЄI: GRA: FRACORV: Z (retrograde): AGLIЄ: RЄX (annulet below Є), Virgin Mary (on left) and Archangel Gabriel (on right) standing behind shields of France and England, respectively, scroll with AVЄ (written upwards) in between, rays above / (crown) XPC ★ VIHCIT ★ XPC ★ RЄGHAT ★ XPC ★ ImPЄRAT (annulet below A), Latin cross within tressure, lis to left, lion to right, h below. Notably well engraved if minorly double-struck, the surfaces a soft yellow-gold with just a hint of red at the edges, producing an overall quite matte appearance. Remarkably rare as a variety, the annulet beneath the second to last letters on the obverse and reverse allowing us to more precisely date and attribute the type, struck under the joint mintmasters Audriet Marcel and Gaulchier Vivien. For reference, the only other example of this variety we have been able to locate achieved in access of $5000 in Dix Noonan Webb's Auction #140 (15 March 2017, lot 639). Comes with old Baldwin's Fixed Price List tag.
HID02901242017
Estimate: 2000-3000 USD