CNG 103, Lot: 974. Estimate $2000. Sold for $5500. 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 (19mm, 1.24 g, 9h). Class 2. Medolus (Melle) mint. Struck 771-793/4. C(ΛR)o/•/LVS in two lines / mEDOLVS around central ornament; L with hook. Coupland, Charlemagne 4; Depeyrot 605; M&G 268 corr. (rev. legend); MEC I, 727; Triton XVIII, lot 1378. Good VF, toned. Well struck and of excellent metal. Rare.

From the Arthur M. Fitts III Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 47 (16 September 1998), lot 2222.