Triton XVIII, Lot: 1416. Estimate $300. Sold for $180. 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 Obol (15mm, 0.54 g, 9h). Class 2. Blesianiscastro (Blois) mint. Struck 864-877. + GRΛTIΛ D–I REX, Karolus monogram / + BI-ESIΛNISCΛSTRO, cross pattée; quadrate O in legend. Depeyrot 161; M&G 924; MEC 1, –. VF, toned, areas of flat strike.

From the Joseph R. Lasser Collection for the benefit of The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. Ex Elsen FPL 249 (July-September 2009), no. 333; Künker 105 (27 September 2005), lot 1849.