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), ½-Gouden Schild met de adelaar, 24 September 1352 - 6 September 1353, Bruges, 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, 2.23g [34.6grns], 9h, m.m. cross pattée (Vernier 3; Elsen 24; Delmonte 455; Gaillard 208; Fb. 153), striking wear to portrait and in corresponding area of reverse, a trace of doubling to peripheries, otherwise lustrous, very fine / good very fine, rare and seldom encountered at auction Provenance Jean Elsen, Sale 62 (Brussels), 24 June 2000, lot 1218
