Bourges as Aquitania Mint

Triton XVIII, Lot: 1392. Estimate $1000. 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, 1.81 g, 5h). Class 2. Aquitania (Bourges) mint. Struck 819-822. + HLVDOVVICVS IMP, cross pattée / AOVI/TANIA in two lines; cross above and below. Coupland, Money, –; Depeyrot 178; M&G 390; MEC 1, 763-764. Near EF, toned.

From the Joseph R. Lasser Collection for the benefit of The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, purchased from Wade Hinderling, 5 April 2010.