Sale: CNG 82, Lot: 1233. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 16 September 2009.  Sold For $1700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

FRANCE, Royal. Louis XVI. 1774–1793. AV Double louis d’or à la tête nue (15.30 g, 6h). Lyon mint; Jean Hubert Bernavon, engraver general. Dated 1786. LUD • XVI • D • G • FR • ET NAV • REX, bare head left; DU VIV• at truncation of neck; bee below head / CHRS • REGN • VINC • IMPER (avian head left) 1786, crowned conjoined coat-of arms of France and Navarre; D in exergue. Duplessy 1706; Ciani 2182; Friedberg 474. EF, lustrous.