Triton XVIII, Lot: 1374. Estimate $1500. Sold for $1600. 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, 0.98 g, 9h). Class 2. Lem[ovacium] (Limoges) mint. Struck 771-793/4. C(AR)o/LV•S• in two lines; pellet in center / LEM across field; long bar and triple pellets above; below, cross flanked by pellet on either side. Coupland, Charlemagne –; Depeyrot 502; M&G 260; MEC 1, 725. VF, toned, minor porosity, struck on a slightly ragged flan.

From the Joseph R. Lasser Collection for the benefit of The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. Ex Maison Palombo (6 May 2006), lot 150.