CNG 91, Lot: 1142. Estimate $3000. Sold for $1800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CAROLINGIANS. Louis 'le Pieux' (the Pious). As Emperor Louis I, 814-840. AR Denier (20mm, 1.39 g, 12h). Class 2. Mainz mint. Struck 819-822. + HLVDOVVICVS IMP, cross pattée; pellets in quarters / MO/GON/TIA/CVS in four lines across field. Coupland, Money, Class II; Depeyrot 581; M&G 321; MEC -. VF, dark patina, minor porosity. Very rare.