FRANCE, Royal. Charles VI le Bien-Aimé/le Fol (the Well-Beloved/the Mad). 1380-1422. AV Écu d’or à la couronne (29mm, 4.06 g, 6h). Paris mint. 1st emission, 1385-1388. + KAROLVS : DЄI : GRACIA : FRAnCORV : RЄX (double saltire stops), crowned coat-of-arms / + XPC · VIИCIT · XPC · RЄGИΛT · XPC · IIIPЄRA (mullet stops), voided short arched cross potent over arched cross fleurée; mullet at center; all within quadrilobe, with inward-facing lis in each arch and crown in each spandrel. Duplessy 369; Ciani 484; Friedberg 291. EF.
Ex Baldwin’s 65 (5 May 2010), lot 1643.
