Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 1818. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $1100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

[Early Dated Collection] GERMANY, Aachen. Reinhald. 1402-1423. AR Groschen (2.24 g, 11h). Dated 1404. SCS' 8 KAROL' MA GNVS 8 IPERAT 8, crowned and nimbate half-length bust of Charlemagne holding sceptre and orb; coat-of-arms with eagle displayed, head facing right / +ANNO 8 DOMINI 8 MILLESIMO 8 CCCC 8 QVARTO, MON ETA VRB' AQEN, medium cross, breaking inner legend. Frey New 14; Förschner 72; Saurma 2804. VF, toned, light scratches. ($500)

From the John Davis Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 47 (16 September 1998), lot 2255 (incorrectly listed as 1402).

The city of Aachen, capital city of Charlemagne and subsequent Holy Roman emperors, was the first European entity to issue regularly dated coinage, with the first dated groschen appearing between 1372 and 1375 under Count Wilhelm II. The 1404 groschen has two varieties of coats-of-arms, with the right facing eagle being scarcer, only appearing this year.