Sale: CNG 82, Lot: 1166. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 16 September 2009.  Sold For $500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MEROVINGIANS, Paris (region). Circa 725-750. AR Denier (1.48 g, 7h). Diademed head right; diadem composed of pellets ending in large curl at back of head / Design deriving from prototype of Latin cross with inverted omega above and pendentives hanging from either end of crossbar; pellets in either void of omega and flanking post of cross below crossbar, cross above, annulet in [left] and right fields; pelleted border ending in annulets flanking cross. NM 3; Belfort 3427-8; cf. MEC 1, 598. VF, toned, struck with worn dies.