CNG 94, Lot: 1568. Estimate $3000. Sold for $5500. 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 (21mm, 1.73 g, 3h). Class 3. Agino (Agen) mint. Struck 793/4-812. + CΛRLV(horizontal S) RX FR, cross pattée / + ACINNO, Karolus monogram. Coupland, Charlemagne –; Depeyrot 1 var. (obv. legend); M&G 178-9; MEC 1, 735 (same, but no pellet). Good VF, toned.

From the James Fox Collection.