Triton XVIII, Lot: 1414. Estimate $300. Sold for $550. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CAROLINGIANS. Charles le Chauve (the Bald). As Charles II, King of West Francia, 840-877. AR Denier (19mm, 1.27 g, 8h). Class 2. Ambianis (Amiens) mint. Struck 864-877. + GRΛTIΛ D–I REX, Karolus monogram / + ΛMBIΛNIS CIVII, cross pattée. Depeyrot 30; M&G 758 var. (obv. legend); MEC 1, –. Good VF, toned, small areas of flat strike.

From the Joseph R. Lasser Collection for the benefit of The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, purchased from Jean Elsen, 30 September 2009.