Triton XVIII, Lot: 1394. Estimate $500. Sold for $1000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CAROLINGIANS. Louis 'le Pieux' (the Pious). As Louis I, King of Aquitaine, 781-814. AR Obol (17mm, 0.83 g, 2h). Class 2. Aquitania (Bourges) mint. Struck 819-822. LVDO/VVIC in two lines / + AOVITANIA, cross pattée. Coupland, Money –; Depeyrot 183; M&G 385; MEC 1, –. VF, toned. Rare.

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