Triton XVIII, Lot: 1375. Estimate $3000. Sold for $4250. 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, 1.19 g, 10h). Class 2. Lugdunum (Lyon) mint. Struck 771-793/4. C(AR)o/LV•S• in two lines / LUG/DUN in two lines; • between, ••• below. Coupland, Charlemagne –; Depeyrot 520; M&G 165; cf. MEC 1, 726 (for type). Good VF, toned, some porosity.

From the Joseph R. Lasser Collection for the benefit of The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, purchased from Jean Elsen, 30 September 2009. Ex Crinon-Alde 38 (18 June 2009), lot 80.