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 Rijder / Franc à cheval (Cavalier dOr), 1361-1364, Gent or Mechelen, LVDOVIC . DEI | GRA : COMES : Z | DNS : FLADRIE, armoured Knight on horseback vaulting left, rampant lion on caparison, rev. + XPC : VINCIT : XPC : REGNAT : XPE IHPERAT, cross tréflée and feuillue within quadrilobe, trefoil fleurée at end of each arc, trilobe in spandrels, 3.84g [59.2grns], 1h, m.m. cross pattée (Vernier 10-11 this coin; Elsen 27; Delmonte 458; Gaillard 212; Fb. 156 [99]), traces of doubling to peripheries, otherwise handsomely lustrous and lightly toned, a most attractive extremely fine Provenance Jean Elsen, Sale 23 (Brussels), 14 December 1991, lot 722 From the Vernier Collection
