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HENRI VI OF ENGLAND. Gold salute featuring on...

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HENRI VI OF ENGLAND. Gold salute featuring on the obverse the angelic greeting with the archangel Gabriel (right) standing to the left, wings half spread, facing the Virgin Mary (left) standing to the right, whom he visits and greets by handing her a scroll inscribed "AVE"; the figures are seen at mid-body and placed behind the accosted shields of France and France-Angleterre; above, five rays of divine light under a crown (Paris). On the reverse, a Latin cross accosted by a lily and a leopard, under the foot of which is an uncial H, all within a fleur-de-lis decalobe.September 6, 1423 (2nd issue). Weight : 3,48 gr.