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Gold Angel - Louis I of Nevers
| Issuer | Flanders, County of |
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| Year | 1341-1346 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse description | The obverse presents a full-length figure of the Archangel Michael, depicted in high relief in the Gothic style, standing facing and trampling a dragon beneath his feet. The angel is richly draped and winged, holding a lance or spear in his right hand directed downward toward the vanquished beast. The figure is set beneath an elaborate Gothic canopy with flanking pinnacled turrets, the whole composition framed by a beaded inner border. A row of small stars or pellets appears along the base of the canopy architecture, and the peripheral legend reading SANCTVS MICHAËL is disposed in uncial characters around the field. |
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| Reverse lettering | ✠ LVDOVICVS * COMES * ET * DOMInVS * FLAnDERIE (Translation: Louis, Count and Lord of Flanders) |
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Louis I of Nevers struck this issue during one of the most turbulent stretches of Flemish political history — the aftermath of the Battle of Crécy in 1346 killed him fighting for the French crown against Edward III, ending his troubled reign. His relationship with the English wool trade had already forced repeated policy reversals, as Flemish cloth towns like Ghent depended on English raw wool imports while Louis remained politically bound to the Valois.
The Delmonte attribution without a corresponding VGF number suggests this type was either unrecorded or incompletely catalogued by Van Gelder and Hoc — not unusual for Flemish gold of this window.