Triton XVIII, Lot: 1372. Estimate $2000. Sold for $3250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CAROLINGIANS. Charlemagne (Charles the Great). As Charles I, King of the Franks, 768-814. AR Obol (16mm, 0.85 g, 11h). Class 2. “Ardis” (Uncertain Provençal) mint. Struck 771-793/4. C(AR)o/LVS in two lines / A-R/DIS in two lines. Cf. Coupland, Charlemagne, p. 216; cf. Depeyrot 56 (denier; Arles); cf. M&G 237 (denier; Indeterminate Mints); cf. Prou 887 (denier; Indeterminate Mints); MEC I, –. Good VF, toned. Rare.

From the Joseph R. Lasser Collection for the benefit of The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, purchased from Wade Hinderling, 27 May 2010.