Venice Mint

Triton XVIII, Lot: 1400. Estimate $750. Sold for $1100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CAROLINGIANS. Louis 'le Pieux' (the Pious). As Emperor Louis I, 814-840. AR Denier (20mm, 1.17 g, 11h). Class 2. Venecias (Venice) mint. Struck 819-822. + HLVDOVVICVS I(MP), cross pattée / +VEN/ECIAS in two lines. Coupland, Money –; Depeyrot 1116D; M&G 456; MEC 1, 789. Near EF, lightly toned.

From the Joseph R. Lasser Collection for the benefit of The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, purchased from Wade Hinderling, 11 December 2009.