★ Very Rare ★

Low Countries, Vlaanderen (Flanders). Filips de Stoute (the Bold, 1384-1404) AV Gouden nobel. Gand (Ghent), Mechelen (Mechlin), and Brugge (Bruges) mint, struck 1384-1404. PҺ'S DЄI ⁑ GRΛ ⁑ DVX ⁑ BVRG ⁑ COMЄS ˣ Z ˣ DꞂ'S ⁑ FLAꞂD', half-length figure of king standing facing within ship, holding sword and shield / ✠ IҺ'C ⁑ ΛVTЄᙏ ⁑ TRΛꞂSIЄꞂS ⁑ PЄR ⁑ ᙏЄDIV ⁑ ILLORVᙏ ⁑ IBΛT, cross fleurdelisée and feuillue, rosette within angled quadrilobe at centre, crown above lion passant in each quarter; all within tressure of eight arches, trefoils in spandrels. Cf. Grierson, Coins of Medieval Europe C24 (noble of Edward III; for prototype); Vanhoudt G2632; Delmonte, Or 474; Friedberg 169. 7.71g, 34.5mm, 9h.

Good Extremely Fine. Very Rare; in magnificent condition for the issue.

From the Long Valley River Collection;
From the Richard A. Jourdan Collection of Medieval European Coins, purchased from Charles H. Wolfe III, 2004 (USD 6,500) who noted "this is the best condition I have ever seen for this coin".

Flanders was the key market for wool, England's most valuable export. English authorities insisted that Flemish merchants pay for wool in English coin. Numerous imitations, both official and unofficial, of the gold Noble, the principle English trade coin, was the inevitable result.