Triton XVIII, Lot: 1377. Estimate $1500. Sold for $900. 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 (15mm, 0.56 g). Class 2. Medolus (Melle) mint. Struck 771-793/4. Retrograde BEPLPLV around central ornament; first L with hook / Incuse of obverse. Schiesser Type B; Coupland, Charlemagne –; Depeyrot 603 corr. (legend; same dies as illustration = Prou 679); cf. M&G 268 (for type); MEC 1, –. VF, some porosity. Very rare.

From the Joseph R. Lasser Collection for the benefit of The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. Ex Elsen 103 (12 December 2009), lot 519.