Triton XVIII, Lot: 1382. Estimate $1000. Sold for $2100. 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 (18mm, 1.33 g, 12h). Class 2. Stratburg (Strassburg) mint. Struck 771-793/4. C(AR)o/LVS in two lines; • between / STRűTBVRG around central cross. Coupland, Charlemagne –; Depeyrot 954; M&G 97; MEC 1, –. VF, toned, slightly ragged flan, thin along edge.

From the Joseph R. Lasser Collection for the benefit of The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, purchased from Wade Hinderling, 24 April 2010.