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FRANCE - CHARLES VI - ÉCU D’OR À LA COURONNE SAINT-LÔ - PCGS MS64
- Condition: MS
- Grade: PCGS MS64
- Date: 1411
- Mint: Saint-Lô
- Metal: Gold
- Weight (g): 3.80
- Diameter (mm): nc
- Reference(s): Dup. 369D / Fr. 291
- Rarity: nc
Charles VI (1380-1422), écu d’or à la couronne, fifth issue (2 November 1411), struck at Saint-Lô.
Obverse: crowned arms of France with three fleurs-de-lis. Legend +KAROLVS DEI GRACIA FRANCORVM REX. Reverse: foliate cross fleurdelisée, a star at the centre within a curved lozenge, the whole within a quatrefoil cantoned with four small crowns. Legend +XPC VINCIT XPC REGNAT XPC INPERAT. Mint mark: annulet below the 19th letter (Saint-Lô).
Broad, irregular flan, obverse legend slightly weak at 12 o’clock. Light golden toning. Mint State.
Note: this écu belongs to the fifth issue, ordered on 2 November 1411, just as the kingdom slid into civil war between Armagnacs and Burgundians. It was struck at Saint-Lô, a Norman mint identified by a small annulet placed below the 19th letter of the legend, under the system of secret marks. A few years later, in 1418, the town fell to Henry V of England during his conquest of Normandy.
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