Two Very Rare Uniface Charlemagne Obols

Triton XVIII, Lot: 1376. Estimate $1500. Sold for $1200. 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 (15mm, 0.62 g). Class 2. Medolus (Melle) mint. Struck 771-793/4. mEDOLVS around central ornament; L with hook / Incuse of obverse. Schiesser Type A; Coupland, Charlemagne –; Depeyrot 602; M&G –; MEC 1, –. VF, toned, area of weak strike, struck on a slightly ragged flan. Very rare.

From the Joseph R. Lasser Collection for the benefit of The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, purchased from Wade Hinderling, 14 May 2010.