Watch List notes:

LOW COUNTRIES, Vlaanderen (Flanders). Lodewijk II van Male. 1346-1384. AV Gouden schild – Chaise d'or (30mm, 4.43 g, 9h). Gand (Ghent) mint. Struck 1370/2-1384. Lodewijk enthroned facing, holding sword and resting hand on coat-of-arms; all within tressure of eight arcs, with trefoils in spandrels; saltire and double saltire stops / Ornate cross fleurée in ornate quadrilobe; rosettes in spandrels; double annulet stops. Elsen 38; Delmonte, Or 466; De Mey, Flanders 205; Friedberg 163. Near EF, lightly toned, trace of deposits. Evenly struck on a broad flan.


Ex Spink 213 (27 June 2012), lot 299.