345, Lot: 574. Estimate $150. Sold for $280. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CAROLINGIANS. Louis 'le Pieux' (the Pious). As Emperor Louis I, 814-840. AR Denier (20mm, 1.47 g, 8h). Class 3. Unspecified (Dax) mint. Struck 822-840. + HLVDOVVICVS IMP, cross pattée; pellets in quarters / + XPISTIΛNΛ RELIGIO, temple façade. Coupland, Money, Group J ; Depeyrot 1179; M&G 472 = Prou 993; MEC 1, –. VF, toned.

From the Michael Joffre Collection, purchased from Sue Hagadorn, 2000.