CNG 102, Lot: 1238. Estimate $2000. Sold for $3750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CAROLINGIANS. Charlemagne (Charles the Great). As Charles I, King of the Franks, 768-814. AR Denier (20mm, 1.60 g, 8h). Class 3. Papia (Pavia) mint. Struck 793/4-812. + CARLV(horizontal S) REX FR, cross pattée / + P A P I A, Carolus monogram; pellet in center. Coupland, Charlemagne 7b15 var. (additional pellet in rev. legend); Depeyrot 780E; M&G 207 var. (no pellet in center of monogram); MEC 1, 744-5 var. (additional pellet in rev. legend). VF, deeply toned. Choice for issue.

From the estate of Thomas Bentley Cederlind. Ex Peus 409 (25 April 2013), lot 1350.