413, Lot: 500. Estimate $100. Sold for $160. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CAROLINGIANS. Louis 'le Pieux' (the Pious). As Emperor Louis I, 814-840. AR Denier (21mm, 1.59 g, 4h). Class 3. Unspecified (Dorestadt?) mint. Struck 822-840. + HLVDOVVICVS IMP, cross pattée; diamond-shaped pellets in quarters / XPISTIΛNΛ RELICIO, temple façade. Cf. Coupland, Money Group B); Depeyrot 1179; M&G –; MEC 1, –. VF, toned.

From the Norman Frank Collection.