Sale: CNG 63, Lot: 1764. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 21 May 2003.  Sold For $2400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of FRANCE. Pepin the Short. 751-768. AR Denier (1.00 gm). St. Denis mint? Struck circa 754-768. R P (Rex Pipinus); bar above, pellets around / ANT TRD- NO in three lines divided by bars. M&G 47 (wrong coin illustrated); Prou 2; Depeyrot 892; MEC 1, 720. VF. Very rare. ($2000)

Grierson and Blackburn (MEC) attributed this coin to a mint at Antrain, Ille-et-Vilaine. However, Georges Depeyrot has followed D.M. Metcalf's attribution to the mint of St. Denis, where, in 754, Pepin was anointed by Pope Stephen II as King of Francia. The epigraphy of this issue is so varied that a positive identification of the mint is probably impossible, barring the evidence of hoard finds.