Tournai 1644 couronne d'or Fr-398
This specimen was lot 828 in Jean Elsen sale 158 (Brussels, March 2024), where it sold for €2,000 (about US$2,601 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted,
"TOURNAI, Seigneurie, Philippe IV (1621-1665), AV couronne d'or, 1644. D/ Croix à triple nervure, évidée et feuillue. R/ Ecu couronné, accosté de deux briquets couronnés. Très rare. Flan court. presque Superbe. (lordship of Tournai, Philip IV, 1621-65, gold crown of 1644. Obverse: voided leafy cross; reverse: crowned arms divides two crowned firesteels. Very rare, tight flan, about Extremely Fine.)"
This type was struck at Tournai 1622, 1629-33, 1636, 1640-49 and all dates are rare. Similar couronnes d'or were struck in Flanders and Brabant.
Reported Mintage: 22,000 for 1643-44.
Specification: 3.41 g, 0.882 fine gold, this specimen 3,41 g.
Catalog reference: KM 43, Fr-398, G.H. 326-9; Delm-449; Hoc 503; VH 639.
- Cuhaj, George S., and Thomas Michael, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1601-1700, 6th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2014.
- 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.
- van Gelder, H. Enno, and Marcel Hoc, Les Monnaies des pays-Bas Bourguignons et Espagnols, 1434-1713, Amsterdam, J. Schulman, 1960, with supplement of 1964.
- [1]Elsen, Philippe, et al., Vente Publique 158, Monnaies de la Principauté de Liège, Brussels: Jean Elsen et ses Fils S.A., 2024.
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