Watch List notes:

FRANCE, Royal. Charles VI le Bien-Aimé/le Fol (the Well-Beloved/the Mad). 1380-1422. AV Écu d'or (29mm, 4.01 g, 8h). Troyes mint. Third emission, 11 September 1389. + kAROLVS DЄI GRACIA FRAnCORVm RЄX, crowned coat-of-arms; pellet below 14th letter; double saltire stops / + XP'C VInCIT XP'C RЄGИΛT XP'C IMPЄRΛT, cross fleurdelisée and feuillue; star in center; all within quadrilobe; lis at end of each arc, crown in spandrels; pierced star stops. Cf. Grierson, Coins of Medieval Europe 332 (for type); Duplessy 369B; Ciani 487; Friedberg 291. Toned, hint of verdegris. EF.


From the Richard A. Jourdan Collection of Medieval European Coins, purchased from Charles H. Wolfe, III, 1999. Ex Mark M. Salton inventory (includes his ticket marked with price of $40).