Just picked up a coin I have lusted for over past ten years/ this one seems to have been struck from fresh dies, plus the guy with the hammer was pretty good at his job. Low Countries/ Flanders AV Gouden Rijder ND Ghent Mint/ struck 1361-64 3.65g. 31mm. .999 Louis II de Male Comte de Flanders obv: Count riding horse/ swinging sword LVDOVEI:GRA:COMES:FnS:FLANDRIE rev: Cross fleuree in quadrilobe/ leaves in angles/ trefoils in spandrels +XPC:VINCIT:XPC:REGNAT:XPC:IMPERAT
And you say you're not Clio? Congrats; good HA got somebody else as I was getting tired of the 2 ladies with the tweety voices speaking ultra fast prompting you to go higher with an irritating tone.
Thank you pprp! Being of limited $$$ resources I have my eye on hundreds of lots in Heritage/ NY Sale/ Triton/ Stacks, so have to be carefull. The lot I ended up with had a reserve of $3K/ it was graded NGC MS-64. The second example (MS-63) had starting bid of $900. I let the first one pass/ no bids. The second had high bid of $1050, so I thought it would go cheap. Well, it got bid upto $2800! So, I scanned the unsold first ex. and found it was beautifully struck from fresh dies/ legends where well defined, had nice eye appeal....so I bought it. That Erythrai Hekte (like yours from CNG) sold for big $$$/ $2460.00. I have never been to a live numismatic auction, we have very little of that in my City (Ottawa)
