From Charles the Bald to Charles the Fat

Triton XVIII, Lot: 1423. Estimate $400. Sold for $650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CAROLINGIANS. Charles le Chauve (the Bald). As Emperor Charles II, 875-877. AR Denier (20mm, 1.49 g, 3h). Class 3. Cavnonis (Chalon-sur-Saône) mint. Struck 876-7. + IICΛIOIVS IIIPER, cross pattée / + CΛVNONI(retrograde S) CIVI(retrograde S), Carolus monogram. Depeyrot 262; M&G 1474 (Late Ninth-Century Issues in the Name of an Emperor Charles); MEC 1, –. Good VF, toned.

From the Joseph R. Lasser Collection for the benefit of The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. Ex Crinon-Alde 51 (14 June 2010), lot 67.