Sale: CNG 76, Lot: 1716. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 12 September 2007.  Sold For $1500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CAROLINGIANS. Louis 'le Pieux' (the Pious). As Emperor Louis I, 814-840. AR Denier (1.61 g, 9h). Venice mint. Struck 819-822. +HLVDOVVICVS IMP, small cross pattée / +VEN/ECIAS• in two lines across field. Coupland, Money Class II; Depeyrot 1116D; M&G 456 var. (no pellet); MEC 1, 789 var. (same). EF, toned.

From Collection C.G. Ex Coin Galleries (21 July 2004), lot 345.