Triton XVIII, Lot: 1410. Estimate $1500. Sold for $3500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CAROLINGIANS. Louis le Germanique (the German). King of East Francia (Germany), 840-876. AR Denier (21mm, 1.65 g, 7h). Mettis (Metz) mint. + GRATIA D– R+ GRΛTIΛ D–I REXX, LVDOVVICVS around pierced cross pattée / + METTIS CIVITAS, cross pattée; double pellets in quarters. Depeyrot 648; M&G 1241 var. (rev. legend); MEC 1, –. VF, mottled tone, slight loss of metal on edge. Very rare.

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