Portrait Gold of Louis ‘le Pieux’

Triton XIX, Lot: 2209. Estimate $10000. Sold for $30000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CAROLINGIANS. Louis 'le Pieux' (the Pious). As Emperor Louis I, 814-840. AV Solidus (21mm, 4.33 g, 9h). Class I. Aix-la-Chapelle (Aachen) mint. DN HLVDOVVICVS INP AVC, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / MVNVS D IVINVM, small cross pattée within wreath. Coupland, Money, p. 27; Grierson, Gold, 4 (dies 3/3); Depeyrot 8 = M&G 515 illustration (example in Berlin; same dies); Gariel, pl. XIV, 11; MEC 1, –; Kluge 241 (same dies). VF, toned, ancient scratch on cheek, struck with worn dies. Very rare.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams. Ex Dr. Anton C. Dreesman Collection (Spink 144, 13 July 2000), lot 817 (obverse illustrated on cover); Spink Zurich 19 (15 May 1986), lot 733 (obverse illustrated as color enlargement); John Work Garrett Collection (Part II, Leu/Numismatic Fine Arts, 16 October 1984), lot 691; John Story Jenks Collection (Henry Chapman, 7 December 1921), lot 1846.