x The Jean-Marie Vanmeerbeeck Collection of Numismatic Portraits from Medieval Flanders and Tudor England | Flanders, Louis II of Male, Count of Nevers and Rethel (1346-1384), Gouden Schild met de adelaar / Vieil écu à laigle, 1348-1357, Gent or Mechelen, + LVDOVICVS : DEI x | x GRA x | COMES : Z : DNS : FLAD. Count enthroned facing, inside gothic canopy, holding sword and resting hand on coat-of-arms decorated with eagle, rev. + ° XPC : VINCIT : XPE : REGNAT : XPE IMPERAT, cross tréflée and feuillue within quadrilobe, trefoil fleurée at end of each arc, trilobe in spandrels, 4.46g [69.0grns], 10h, m.m. cross pattée (Vernier 2; De Mey, Flanders 177; Elsen 22; Delmonte 454; Gaillard 207; Fb. 152 [96]), a handsomely uniform and full striking, residually lustrous, near extremely fine Provenance Jean Elsen, Sale 23 (Brussels), 14 December 1991, lot 721
