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Auction XX  29-30 Oct 2020
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Lot 994

Estimate: 2500 GBP
Price realized: 4400 GBP
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Low Countries, Vlaanderen (Flanders). Lodewijk II van Male (1346-1384) AV Gouden lam (mouton d'or). Gand (Ghent) and Mechelen (Mechlin) mint, struck 1346-1384. ✠ AGꞂ ⦂ DЄI ⦂ QVI ⦂ TOLL ⦂ PCCA ⦂ ᙏV'DI ⦂ ᙏISЄRЄRЄ ⦂ ꞂOBI, nimbate Agnus Dei standing to left, head to right, cruciform staff with pennant flying in background, LVD' CO : F' below; all within tressure of seventeen arches / ✠ • XP'C ⁑ VIИCIT ⁑ XP'C ⁑ RЄGИAT ⁑ XP'C ⁑ IИPЄRAT, cross fleurée and feuillue; cinquefoil within angled quadrilobe at centre, eagles in quarters; all within angled quadrilobe, trefoils flanking angles. Grierson, Coins of Medieval Europe, p. 115 and C16 (for French prototype); Vanhoudt G2601; Delmonte, Or 457; Friedberg 155. 4.42g, 30mm, 30h.

Near Mint State. Rare; among the finest known examples.

From the Long Valley River Collection;
Ex Richard A. Jourdan Collection of Medieval European Coins;
Privately purchased from Charles H. Wolfe, III, 1996 (USD2, 650).
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