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CNG 96, Lot: 1048. Estimate $5000.
Sold for $3000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CAROLINGIANS. Pépin 'le Bref' (the Short). King of the Franks, 754/5-768. AR Denier (16mm, 0.88 g, 10h). Uncertain mint, possibly St. Denis. Large R • P; pellet above; triple pellets below P / (VV)/ – (elongated A)(retrograde D)T/V(diamond O) in three lines between two bars. Cf. Depeyrot 892/2; cf. M&G 47; cf. Gariel, pl. I, 1-7; cf. Prou 2-4; MEC 1, 720 (all refs. for type). VF, small edge chip and minor flan crack. Very rare.


Found at Arcis-sur-Aube, 1989.