Prototype Issue

CNG 103, Lot: 978. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1115. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CAROLINGIANS. temp. Robert I. King of West Francia, 922-923. AR Denier (21mm, 1.42 g, 12h). Crinon Group 1, Series 1, Variety 1. Chinon mint. TVRON to right, diademed and mantled bust right / + CΛINONI CASTRO, cross pattée; pellet in first quarter. Crinon, Catalogue, p. 73, 1-4/2 (same dies); Poey d’Avant 1670; Fécamp pl. XIV = Crinon, “À propos de deniers inédits de Blois (Xe siècle): le monnayage à la tête dans les domaines de Thibaud de Tours et Thibaud Ier (durant les deux premiers tiers du Xe s.),” BSFN 48.1 (January 1993), p. 469; CNG Inv. 956854 (same obv. die). Good VF, lightly toned, reverse off center with small area of weak strike at periphery. A strong portrait coin.