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), 1/4-Gouden Schild met de adelaar, 24 September 1352 - 6 September 1353, Bruges, Gent or Mechelen, + LVDOVIC : DEI x | x GRA x | COMES : FLA. Count enthroned facing, inside gothic canopy, holding sword and resting hand on coat-of-arms decorated with eagle, rev. + ° XPC : VINCIT : XPE : REGNAT : XPE IPERAT, cross tréflée and feuillue within quadrilobe, trefoil fleurée at end of each arc, trilobe in spandrels, 1.09g [16.6grns], 12h, m.m. cross pattée (Delmonte 456 [R2]; Gaillard 209; Fb. 154), struck with rusty dies, otherwise a thoroughly pleasing example for this excessively rare type, a pleasing very fine, only three traced at global auction this millennium, and this the sharpest by a considerable margin Provenance Yves Gallard (Paris), FPL, 25 April 2002, no. 565
