FRANCE / CAPÉTIENS - FRANCE / ROYAL Philip VI (1328-1350). Gold shield with chair, 1st issue ND (1337). Av. + PHILIPPVSx DEIx - xGRAx - FRANCORVMx 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. +° XP'C: VINCIT: XP'C: REGNAT: XP'C: IMPERAT. Cross four-lobed and flory, within a quatrefoil decorated with leaves and flanked by four shamrocks without tails. Dy.249 v. - Fr.270; Gold - 4.53 g - 29.5 mm - 12 h This is the second highest grade (9)! PCGS MS63 (55951216). With annulus after the initial cross on the reverse. The strike slightly off-centre on the reverse, with the flank slightly warped. Beautiful golden patina. Superb.