Unique Mainz Variety

CNG 94, Lot: 1569. Estimate $3000. Sold for $2750. 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 (20mm, 1.71 g, 12h). Class 3. Mogontiacum (Mainz) mint. Struck 793/4-812. + CПRLV(horizontal S) REX FR, Karolus monogram / + MOGOИTIΛ, cross pattée; pellet in first quarter. Coupland, Charlemagne –; Depeyrot 579 var. (no pellet); Haertle –; cf. M&G 90 = Gariel 205 (for type, but with pellets in quarters); cf. MEC 1, 741 (same, but no pellet). Good VF, areas of light toning, traces of porosity. Apparently unique variety with single pellet.