FRANCE / CAPÉTIENS - FRANCE / ROYAL John II the Good (1350-1364). Gold shield with chair, 1st issue ND (1351). Av. + IOHANNES: DEI - °GRA° - FRANCORVM: REX. The King seated in a gothic stall, crowned, wearing the haubert and the cotte d'armes, holding the sword and the shield of France with lilies without number, in a polylobe cantoned with small shamrocks; saltires on the steps of the stall. Rv. + XPC: VINCIT: XPC: REGNAT: XPC: IMPERAT. Four-lobed cross with flowers within a quatrefoil decorated with leaves and flanked by four shamrocks, one of which has its point facing the centre. Dy.289 - Fr.276; Gold - 4.45 g - 28.5 mm - 7 h Top Pop: this is the only graded example! PCGS MS61 (51879257). With minor minting weaknesses. Traces of rubbing on the reverse at 11 o'clock. Golden patina. Superb condition.