Triton XVIII, Lot: 1387. Estimate $2000. Sold for $1600. 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 (21mm, 1.35 g, 9h). Class 3. Tolusa (Toulouse) mint. Struck circa 793/4-812. + CARLV(retrograde S) RE+ FR, cross pattée / + TOLV(horizontal S)A, Carolus monogram. Coupland, Charlemagne 7b; Depeyrot 993; M&G 181; MEC 1, –. VF, toned, minor roughness.

From the Michael Joffre Collection, purchased from Claude Burgan, 2002.