397, Lot: 740. Estimate $750. Sold for $700. 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, 3.38 g, 12h). 2nd type. Grenoble mint. First and third emission, until 1528. Coat-of-arms; sunburst above / Cross fleurdelisée, with central pierced quadralobe; crowned F in first and fourth quarters. Duplessy 783; Ciani 1083; Friedberg 355. EF, minor weak strike at peripheries.

From the J. Eric Engstrom Collection. Ex Stack’s (1 May 1991), lot 1907.