Extremely Rare Charlemagne Denier from Namur

CNG 96, Lot: 1050. Estimate $7500. Sold for $12000. 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, 1.04 g, 10h). Class 2. Namucum (Namur) mint. Struck 771-793/4. C(AR)o/LVS in two lines / ΛNΛ/IMV in two lines separated by bar. Unpublished. Good VF, toned. One of two known (the other in a private collection).

Ex Crinon (12 June 2012), lot 452; found at Monchel-sur-Canche.