227, Lot: 562. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1050. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

FRANCE, Royal. Louis XVI. 1774–1793. AV Louis d’or (7.68 g, 6h). Nantes mint; Louis Salomon Poirier, engraver general; M. Fr. J. Thomas, mint director. Dated 1786. LUD • XVI • D • G • FR • ET NAV • REX, bare head left; DU VIV. at truncation of neck; below head, dog seated left / CHRS • REGN • VINC • IMPER (tree) 1786, crowned double arms of France and Navarre; T below. Duplessy 1707; Ciani 2183; Friedberg 475. Superb EF, fully lustrous, minor adjustment marks.