LOW COUNTRIES, Vlaanderen (Flanders). Lodewijk II van Male. 1346-1384. AV Nieuw gouden schild (30.5mm, 4.49 g, 5h). Gand (Ghent) and Mechelen (Mechlin) mint. L V DOVICVS DЄI GRΛ COm’ DnS FLΛNDR I Є, Lodewijk seated facing on Gothic throne set on daïs decorated with seven saltires, holding sword and shield decorated with imperial arms; all within tressure of eight arcs; trefoils in spandrels / + XPC VIИCIT XPC RЄGИAT XPC IИPЄRAT, cross quadrilobée, fleurée and feuillue with central quadrilobe; within quadrilobe, each arc ending in qutrefoil; rosettes in spandrels; double annulet stops. Cf. Grierson, Coins of Medieval Europe C18 (Gouden Flandres) ; V&S 271; Vanhoudt G2614; Delmonte, Or 466; Friedberg 163. Underlying luster. Choice EF.

From the Richard A. Jourdan Collection of Medieval European Coins, purchased from Charles H. Wolfe, III, 2003.