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), Golden Lion / Gehelmde Gouden leeuw / Lion dOr heaumé, 10 February 1365 - 5 August 1370, Gent, LV | DOVICVS : DEI : GRA : COM ° Z : DNS : FLANDR | IE, helmeted lion standing left in front of spired Gothic throne, FLANDRES in exergue, rev BENEDICTVS : QVI : VEHIT : IN : NOMINE : DOMINI, cross fleurée and feuillue, D at centre, F L A N in angles, all within tressure of twenty arcs, 5.40g [82.6grns], 8h, m.m. cross pattée (VH/Saunders 265; Elsen 28; Delmonte 460; Gaillard 214; Fb. 157 [101]), a broad and fully round striking, lustrous and handsomely choice, extremely fine Provenance C Pire (Brussels), March 1985
