Watch List notes:

FRANCE, Royal. Charles IV le Bel (the Fair). 1322–1328. AV Royal d'or (26mm, 4.15 g, 9h). Paris mint. Authorized 16 February 1326. KOL RЄX FRA' COR', Charles standing facing within Gothic archway, holding lis-tipped scepter and pointing to it; annulet stops / + XP'C VInCIT XP'C RЄGИAT XP'C IMPЄRAT, cross quadrilobée, feuillue, and fleurdelisée; pellet in central quadrilobe; all within quadrilobe with each arc ending in trilobe; crown in spandrels. Cf. Grierson, Coins of Medieval Europe 331 (for type); Duplessy 240; Ciani 252; Friedberg 261. Toned. EF. Exceptional for issue.


From the Richard A. Jourdan Collection of Medieval European Coins. Ex Triton XVII (7 January 2014), lot 996.