CAROLINGIANS. Louis 'le Pieux' (the Pious). As Emperor Louis I, 814-840. AR Denier (20mm, 1.49 g, 8h). Class 1. Metallum (Melle) mint. Struck 814-819. HLVDOVVICVS IMP AVG, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / + METALLVM, implements of coin minting: pair of dies, flanked on either side by mallet. Coupland,
Money 3; Depeyrot 607; M&G 396; Gariel 73; MEC 1, 758. Toned, some deposits in devices, areas of porosity. VF. Very rare.
Ex Triton XXV (11 January 2022), lot 1104.
