Details
LOT 3569
Coin Weight for the French Ecu au Soleil. 16th century AD.
Coat-of-arms / Blank. Cf. LSA p.48. Condition as seen.(2.01gr, 13mm.).
Provenance
Found Yorkshire, UK.
From the private collection of Robin Sykes, Yorkshire, UK, formed since the late 1990s.
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