Watch List notes:

FRANCE, Royal. Louis XII le Père du Peuple (the Father of His People). 1498-1515. AV Écu d'or aux porcs-épics (27mm, 3.42 g, 6h). Poitiers mint. Authorized 19 November 1507. + LV∂OVICVS : ∂EI : GRACIA : FRANCORV : REX, crowned coat-of-arms with porcupine supporters; pellet below 8th letter / + XPS : VINCIT : XPS : RЄGNAT XPS : IMPERAT, cross achée; porcupine and L in opposite quarters. Grierson, Coins of Medieval Europe 425; Duplessy 655; Ciani 909; Friedberg 325. Toned. Good VF.


From the Richard A. Jourdan Collection of Medieval European Coins. Ex Münzen und Medaillen AG 95 (4 October 2004), lot 255.