x The Jean-Marie Vanmeerbeeck Collection of English and Flanders Medieval and Tudor Coins | Flanders, Louis II de Male (1346-1384), New Gouden Schild met de leeuw / Ecu dOr au Lion, Gent or Mechelen, LVDOVICVS : DEI x | x GRA x | COM . F : DON : FLAND , Count enthroned facing, holding sword and resting hand on coat-of-arms emblazoned with Rampant lion, inside tressure of seven arches, angular trefoils in spandrels, rev. XPC : VINCIT : XPC : REGNAT : XPC : INPERAT, double annulet stops, retrograde roman Ns, cross tréflée and feuillue within quadrilobe, trefoil fleurée at end of each arc, trilobe in spandrels, 4.50g [69.0grns], 10h, m.m. cross pattée (Martiny, Gent, 48; Elsen 38; Delmonte 466; Gaillard 218; ), a trace of striking softness, otherwise attractively round and lustrous, a pleasing extremely fine Provenance F de Clippel, 62 Avenue, Duc Jean-Ganshoren, 23 January 1965
