Very Rare Liège Denier

Triton XVIII, Lot: 1418. Estimate $3000. Sold for $4750. 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, 1.64 g, 8h). Class 2. Tunieras (Liège) mint. Struck 864-877 and later. + CRΛTIΛ D–I REX, Karolus monogram / + TVNIERΛS CIVITΛS, cross pattée. Depeyrot 501A; M&G 1148; MEC 1, –. EF, toned. Very rare.

From the Joseph R. Lasser Collection for the benefit of The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. Ex Elsen 104 (13 March 2010), lot 304.