Flanders (1356-64) mouton d'or Fr-155
This specimen was lot 689 in Jean Elsen sale 141 (Brussels, June 2019), where it sold for €2,600 (about US$3,446 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"VLAANDEREN, Graafschap, Lodewijk van Male (1346-1384), AV gouden lam (mouton d'or), 1356-1364, Gent en Mechelen. Vz/ Het lam Gods voor een kruisvaan met vlaggetje. Eronder, LVD'-CO:F. Kz/ Gebladerd kruis in een vierpas met in het hart een roosje. In de hoeken, vier adelaars. Acht klaverbladen buiten de inspringende hoeken. Het omschrift begint met +•XP'C. Krasje op kz. Zeer Fraai à Prachtig. Uit onze veiling 96, 14 juni 2008, 769. (county of Flanders, Louis de Male, 1346-84, undated gold mouton d'or, Ghent or Mechelen mint. Obverse: Lamb of God; reverse: cross in quadrilobe with a rose at the center, four eagles in the quarters. Edge crack, Very Fine - Extremely Fine.)"
Nominally part of France, Louis refused to pay homage to either the king of France or the king of England, steering a neutral course during the Hundred Years War. It was then that this imitation of a French mouton d'or was struck. Later, he married his daughter to Philip, duke of Burgundy, uniting the two houses against the authority of the king of France.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: gold, this specimen 4,66 g.
Catalog reference: Fr-155, Gaill. 210; Delm-457; Elsen 26; Martiny, Gent, 35-2.
- Delmonte, A., Le Bénélux D'or, Amsterdam: Jacques Schulman N.V., 1964, with supplements to 1977.
- Friedberg, Arthur L. and Ira S. Friedberg, Gold Coins of the World, From Ancient Times to the Present, 9th ed., Clifton, NJ: Coin and Currency Institute, 2017.
- [1]Elsen, Philippe, et al., Vente Publique 141, Brussels: Jean Elsen et ses Fils, S.A., 2019.
Links to:
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