Choice Charlemagne Denier

CNG 96, Lot: 1049. Estimate $7500. Sold for $10000. 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 (18mm, 1.34 g, 3h). Class 2. Metallum (Melle) mint. Struck 771-793/4. C(AR)o/LVS in two lines / mEDOLVS in circle around central ornament; L with hook. Coupland, Charlemagne 4; Depeyrot 605; M&G 268 var. (rev. legend); Gariel, pl. VIII 86–7; Prou 681–2; MEC I, 727 . EF, toned. Well centered on a broad flan and of excellent metal. Rare.