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FRANCE / CAPETIANS - FRANCE / ROYAL
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1115
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FRANCE / CAPETIANS - FRANCE / ROYAL
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Estimate €10,000
Voluntary lot
Description
FRANCE / CAPETIANS - FRANCE / ROYAL
Philip VI (1328–1350). Gold angel, 2nd issue, Notre-Dame (1341).
Obverse: PHILIPPVS: D’ – GRA: FRAC: REX. The Archangel Saint Michael standing beneath a canopy forming the top of a polylobe cut off at the bottom, crowned, holding a long-shafted cross resting on the head of a dragon lying at his feet, and the shield of France with three lilies.
Reverse: + XPC: VINCIT: XPC: REGNAT: XPC: IMPERAT. A four-lobed cross, leafy and fleur-de-lis-adorned, within a four-lobed fleur-de-lis field flanked by four small crowns.
Dy.255A - Fr.273; Gold - 6.33 g - 32 mm - 9 h
NGC MS 61 (8772184-002).
A fine blank and strike, with sharp relief, from the second issue alone, struck between August 1341 and June 1342! With a slight golden patina. Superb.
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