Triton XVIII, Lot: 1381. Estimate $5000. Sold for $8000. 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, 1.14 g, 11h). Class 2. Sancti Firm[i]ni (Saint-Firmin [Amiens]) mint. Struck 771-793/4. C(AR)o/LVS in two lines / SCI/FIRM/NI (triskeles) in three lines; bar above. Coupland, Charlemagne –; Depeyrot 37; M&G 125; MEC 1, –. Good VF, toned. Very rare.

From the Joseph R. Lasser Collection for the benefit of The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, purchased from James F. Elmen, 22 July 2009. Ex Fürstenberg Collection (Cahn 79, 14 December 1932), lot 1210.