Sale: CNG 73, Lot: 1079. Estimate $3000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 13 September 2006.  Sold For $3600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CAROLINGIANS. Charlemagne (Charles the Great). As Charles I, King of the Franks, 768-814. AR Denier (1.13 g, 6h). Uncertain Provençal mint. Struck AD 771-793/4. CARO/LVS in two lines across fields; • in center / A••R/DIS around cross pattée. Depeyrot 56; cf. M&G 237-238; MEC 1, 722 and note; cf. Roberts 755. EF. Very rare.