★ Ex Lockett Collection ★

Low Countries, Vlaanderen (Flanders). Lodewijk II van Male (1346-1384) AV Gouden rijder (franc à cheval). Gand (Ghent) mint, struck 1346-1384. LVDOVIC ⦂ DЄI GRA ⦂ COᙏЄS ⦂ F DꞂS FL⊼ꞂDR I Є, armoured knight on caparisoned horse to left, holding reins and raised sword / ✠ XPC ⁑ VIИCIT ⁑ XPC ⁑ RЄGИAT ⁑ XPC ⁑ IMPЄRAT, cross fleurée and feuillue, pellet within quadrilobe at centre; all within quadrilobe, each arc ending in palmette, trefoils in spandrels. Grierson, Coins of Medieval Europe, p. 159; Vanhoudt G2602; Delmonte, Or 458; Friedberg 156. 3.82g, 29mm, 8h.

Mint State; in exceptional condition for the type.

From the Long Valley River Collection;
Privately purchased from Charles H. Wolfe III, 1998;
Ex Richard Cyril Lockett Collection, Glendining & Co. Ltd, 29 February 1956, lot 240.