Bourges Mint

Triton XVIII, Lot: 1391. Estimate $750. Sold for $1200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CAROLINGIANS. Louis 'le Pieux' (the Pious). As Emperor Louis I, 814-840. AR Denier (21mm, 1.78 g, 8h). Class 2. Bituriges (Bourges) mint. Struck 819-822. + HLVDOVVICVS IMP, cross pattée / BITV/RIGES in two lines; • between. Coupland, Money, –; Depeyrot 177; M&G 410; MEC 1, 766-767. Near EF, toned.

From the Joseph R. Lasser Collection for the benefit of The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, purchased from Wade Hinderling, 10 October 2009.