Low Countries, Vlaanderen (Flanders). Lodewijk II van Male (1346-1384) AV Nieuw gouden schild (écu d’or au lion). Gand (Ghent) and Mechelen (Mechlin) mint, struck 1346-1384. LVDOVICVS ⁑ DЄI ˣ ˣ GRΛ ˣ COᙏ' ⁑ DꞂS ⁑ FLΛꞂD', Lodewijk seated facing on Gothic throne set on dais decorated with seven saltires, holding sword and shield decorated with imperial arms; all within tressure of eight arches; trefoils in spandrels / ✠ XPC ⦂ VIИCIT ⦂ XPC ⦂ RЄGИAT ⦂ XPC ⦂ IИPЄRAT, cross quadrilobée, fleurée and feuillue with central quadrilobe; all within quadrilobe, each arc ending in quatrefoil, rosettes in spandrels. Cf. Grierson, Coins of Medieval Europe C18 (Gouden Flandres); Vanhoudt G2614; Delmonte, Or 466; Friedberg 163. 4.49g, 30.5mm, 5h.

Good Extremely Fine.

From the Long Valley River Collection;
Ex Richard A. Jourdan Collection of Medieval European Coins;
Privately purchased from Charles H. Wolfe III, 2003.