Triton XIX, Lot: 2208. Estimate $20000. Sold for $30000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CAROLINGIANS. Charlemagne (Charles the Great). As Charles I, King of the Franks, 768-814. AV Tremissis (17mm, 0.98 g, 11h). Sebrio (Castelseprio) mint. + FL • A • S • ЄB • R (four pellets) IO, + D • N CΛ•R • O • LO • (Rx), cross potent. Bernareggi –; Bernareggi, Tremissi 78 var. (triple pellets after R in obv. legend); Bernareggi, Moneta, 42 var. (same); Depeyrot –; BMC Vandals –; Arslan –; MEC 1, –. EF, lightly toned, edge crimp. Apparently unique variety of this extremely rare issue.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams. Ex Classical Numismatic Group Inventory 700781 (March 1997); Vecchi 5 (5 March 1997), lot 1132.