Extremely Rare Denier of Hughes le Grand – Ex de Witt, Prieur, Bordeaux, and Meyer

Triton XVIII, Lot: 1449. Estimate $3000. Sold for $4250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CAROLINGIANS. Hughes le Grand. Duke of the Franks and Count of Paris, 923-956. AR Denier (20mm, 1.30 g, 2h). Silvanectis (Senlis) mint. + CRΛTIΛ D–I REX, HVIIO DVX around cross pattée / SNVA/(NE)CTIS in two lines; bar between, cross above and below. C. Prieur and É. Pourcherol, “Numismatique Française: Monnaies Capétiennes,” Arethvse 16 (July 1927), p. XXXIX (this coin referenced); Duplessy, Féodales, 6; Legros 44; Poey d’Avant 25 and pl. I, 14. Good VF, toned. Extremely rare.

From the Joseph R. Lasser Collection for the benefit of The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, purchased from Wade Hinderling, 20 March 2010. Ex Prof. G. W. de Wit Collection (Künker 121, 12 March 2007), lot 246 (purchased from Jean Vinchon, 1978); Charles Prieur Collection; Bordeaux Collection; Henri Meyer Collection (Rollin & Feuardent, 26 May 1902), lot 551.

This extremely rare type was traditionally given to the first issue of Hugh Capet, but Legros persuasively argued that it actually belongs under Hughes le Grand.