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Triton XX, Lot: 1134. Estimate $2000.
Sold for $1400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CAROLINGIANS. temp. Robert I. King of West Francia, 922-923. AR Denier (21mm, 1.45 g, 6h). 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, minor area of weak strike on reverse. A well-centered portrait.