346, Lot: 565. Estimate $100. Sold for $160. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CAROLINGIANS. Louis 'le Pieux' (the Pious). As Emperor Louis I, 814-840. AR Obole (17mm, 0.53 g, 12h). Class 3. Unspecified (Dorestad?) mint. Struck 822-840. + IILVDOVVICVS II, cross pattée; pellets in quarters / XPISTIΛIIΛ RELCIO, temple façade. Cf. Coupland, Money Group B; Depeyrot 1180; cf. M&G 509-511; cf. MEC 1, 809. Near VF, toned.

From the Michael Joffre Collection.