Triton XVIII, Lot: 1415. Estimate $300. Sold for $325. 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 (21mm, 1.76 g, 1h). Class 2. Atrebas (Arras) mint. Struck 864-877 and later. X CIDΛTIΛ D–I RE+, Carolus monogram / + ΛTREB•ΛS CIVI, cross pattée. Depeyrot 81; M&G 744-745 var. (no • after B); MEC 1, –. Good VF, toned, a bit softly struck. Rare mint.

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