Prototype Issue

5630566.

SOLD $2450

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. Toned. Good VF. Very rare.

Ex CNG inventory 956854 (August 2013); Elsen 98 (13 December 2008), lot 713.