Charlamagne at Narbonne

Sale: CNG 81, Lot: 1220. Estimate $3000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 20 May 2009.  Sold For $4000. 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 (1.42 g, 6h). Narbonne mint. Struck 793/4-812. + CΛRLVS REX FR, cross pattée / + NARBONA, Karolus monogram. Coupland, Charlemagne -; Depeyrot 689; M&G 185; MEC 1 -. Good VF, toned, typical areas of weak strike. Rare mint.