Very Rare Portrait Denier

CNG 88, Lot: 1766. Estimate $5000. Sold for $4750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CAROLINGIANS. Louis 'le Pieux' (the Pious). As Emperor Louis I, 814-840. AR Denier (19mm, 1.74 g, 3h). Class 1. Metallum (Melle) mint. Struck circa 814-819. HLVDOVVICVS IMP AVG, laureate and draped bust right / + METALLVM, two dies between two hammers. Coupland, Money, Class I, 3; Depeyrot 607; M&G 396; MEC 1, 758. VF, toned. Very rare.