Melle Mint

Triton XVIII, Lot: 1395. Estimate $500. Sold for $600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CAROLINGIANS. Louis 'le Pieux' (the Pious). As Emperor Louis I, 814-840. AR Denier (21mm, 1.73 g, 12h). Class 2. Metallum (Melle) mint. Struck 819-822. + HLVDOVVICVS IMP, cross pattée / META/LLVM in two lines; • between. Cf. Coupland, Money, Class II, 3 (for type); Depeyrot 609; M&G 389; cf. MEC 1, 774-776 (same). Good VF, toned.

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