389, Lot: 934. Estimate $200. Sold for $1025. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

FRANCE, Royal. François I le Pére et Restaurateur des Lettres (the Father and Restorer of Letters). 1515-1547. AV Écu d’or au soleil du Dauphiné (27mm, 3.41 g, 9h). Crémieu mint; mm: pellet under 1st letter of legends. First emission, struck before 1528. Coat-of-arms; sunburst above / Cross fleurée, with polylobe in center. Duplessy 782; Ciani 1082; Friedberg 354. VF.

From the J. Eric Engstrom Collection. Ex Coin Galleries (22 February 1989), lot 528.