LOW COUNTRIES, Vlaanderen (Flanders). Lodewijk II van Male. 1346-1384. AV Gouden rijder (29mm, 3.82 g, 8h). Gand (Ghent) mint. L V DOVICVS DЄI GRΛ COm' DnS FLΛNDR I Є, armored knight on caparisoned horse left, holding reins and raised sword; annulet and double-annulet stops / + XPC VIИCIT XPC RЄGИAT XPC IMPЄRAT, cross fleurée and feuillue; in center of cross, pellet within quadrilobe, each arc ending in palmette; all within quadrilobe; trilobes in spandrels; double saltires in legends. Grierson, Coins of Medieval Europe, p. 159; V&S 262; Vanhoudt G2602; Delmonte, Or 458; Friedberg 156. Toned. EF. Well struck.
From the Richard A. Jourdan Collection of Medieval European Coins, purchased from Charles H. Wolfe, III, 1998. Ex Richard Cyril Lockett Collection (Glendining, 29 February 1956), lot 240.