Triton XVIII, Lot: 1389. Estimate $3000. Sold for $4250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CAROLINGIANS. Louis 'le Pieux' (the Pious). As Emperor Louis I, 814-840. AR Denier (20mm, 1.77 g, 1h). Class 1. Metallum (Melle) mint. Struck 814-819. + HLVDOVVICVS IMP ΛVG, laureate and draped bust right / + METALLVM, obverse and reverse dies; mallet to right and left. Cf. Coupland, Money, Class I, 3 (obol); Depeyrot 607; M&G 396; MEC 1, 758. VF, toned. Rare.

From the Joseph R. Lasser Collection for the benefit of The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. Ex Elsen 103 (12 December 2009), lot 520.