Tag Archive for: Charles VI

Charles VI King 1/2 Heaume d’or 1380-1422
Charles VI, 1418
Duplessy 374A; Friedberg 296, PCGS graded AU-55 La Rochelle, 1418(?). + KAROLVS DEI GRACIA FRANCORVM REX, arms of France beneath a crowned and draped helm. Reverse: + XPC VINCIT XPC REGNAT XPC INPERAT, cross fleurée…

Charles VI King Ecu d’or à la couronne 1380-1422
Charles VI, 1388
Duplessy 369A; Friedberg 292, PCGS graded MS-61 Tournai. 2nd emission, 28 February 1388. + KAROLVS DEI GRACIA FRAnCORVm REX, crowned arms of France. Reverse: + XPC VI?CIT XPC REG?AT XPC I?PERAT, cross fleurée with…

Charles VI King Ecu d’or à la couronne 1380-1422
Charles VI, 1385
Duplessy 369; Friedberg 291, PCGS graded MS-64 Uncertain mint. 1st emission, 11 March 1385. + KAROLVS DEI GRACIA FRAnCORVm REX, crowned arms of France. Reverse: + XPC VInCIT XPC REGnAT XPC InPERAT, cross fleurée with…

Charles VI King Agnel d’or 1380-1422
Charles VI, 1418-1420
Duplessy 372; Friedberg 290, PCGS graded MS-64 Saint-André de Villeneuve-lès-Avignon, under Prince Charles, as Regent, 26 October 1418-21 October 1422. + AGn DEI QVI TOLL PECAT mVDI mIS? nOBIS, paschal lamb…

Charles VI King Salut d’or 1380-1422
Charles VI, 1421
Duplessy 375; Friedberg 288, PCGS graded AU-55
In 1421, Charles VI introduced the salut d’or (“greeting of gold”), a coin named for the subject of the obverse type. It depicts the Annunciation, when the Archangel…

Charles VI King Chaise d’or 1380-1422
Charles VI, 1420-1422
Duplessy 414; Friedberg 286, PCGS graded MS-61
The chaise d’or of Charles VI seems to depart from the iconography of earlier incarnations of the denomination. Instead of the ornate Gothic throne that normally signifies…