Triton XVIII, Lot: 1373. Estimate $5000. Sold for $6500. 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 (17mm, 1.15 g, 12h). Class 2. [Dore]stat[us] (Dorestad) mint. Struck 771-793/4. C(AR)o/LVS in two lines / ΩOΩ/STΠT in two lines; ax below. Coupland, Charlemagne 3; Depeyrot 410; M&G 699; MEC 1, 724. Good VF, toned. Very rare.

From the Joseph R. Lasser Collection for the benefit of The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. Ex Elsen 102 (12 September 2009), lot 434.