CNG 88, Lot: 1768. Estimate $500. Sold for $425. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CAROLINGIANS. Louis 'le Pieux' (the Pious). As Emperor Louis I, 814-840. AR Denier (21mm, 1.56 g, 4h). Class 3. Dorestad mint. Struck 822-840. + (HL)VDOVVICVS IMP’, cross pattée; pellets in quarters / + XPISTIΛNΛ RELIGIO, temple façade; cross within. Coupland, Money, Group B, 2; Depeyrot 418; M&G 472; MEC 1, 796. Good VF, old collection toning, flan bent and straightened, faint old collection mark (‘83’) and light scratch under tone on obverse.