Triton XVIII, Lot: 1428. Estimate $3000. Sold for $3250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CAROLINGIANS. Louis le Bègue (the Stammerer). As Louis II, King of West Francia, 877-879. AR Denier (19mm, 1.52 g, 9h). Vico Viosato (Vise) mint. + HLVDOVVICVS REX, Carolus monogram / + IN VICO VIOSΛTO, cross pattée. Depeyrot 1155; M&G 1227; MEC 1, –. Good VF, toned. Very rare.

From the Joseph R. Lasser Collection for the benefit of The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. Ex Elsen 104 (13 March 2010), lot 306.