Two Deniers of Charlemagne

Sale: CNG 78, Lot: 1906. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 May 2008.  Sold For $2000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CAROLINGIANS. Charlemagne (Charles the Great). As Charles I, King of the Franks, 768-814. AR Denier (1.06 g, 12h). Melle mint. Struck 771-793/4. CARO/LVS (AR ligate) in two lines across field / mEDOLVS around central voided and angled quadrilobe. Coupland, Charlemagne fig. 7a, 4; Depeyrot 605; M&G 268; MEC 1, 727. VF, toned, edge a little ragged.

Ex Ross Schraeder Collection.