Paris Mint

Triton XVIII, Lot: 1398. Estimate $500. Sold for $1300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CAROLINGIANS. Louis 'le Pieux' (the Pious). As Emperor Louis I, 814-840. AR Denier (20mm, 1.86 g, 4h). Class 2. Parisii (Paris) mint. Struck 819-822. + HLVDOVVICVS IMP, cross pattée / PARISII across field. Coupland, Money –; Depeyrot 759; M&G 361; MEC 1, 781. Good VF, toned.

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