CAROLINGIANS. Louis 'le Pieux' (the Pious). As Emperor Louis I, 814-840. AR Denier (20mm, 1.54 g, 9h). Class 2. Dorestatus (Dorestadt) mint. Struck 818/9-822/3.

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CAROLINGIANS. Louis 'le Pieux' (the Pious). As Emperor Louis I, 814-840. AR Denier (20mm, 1.54 g, 9h). Class 2. Dorestatus (Dorestadt) mint. Struck 818/9-822/3. +HLVDOVVICVS IMP, cross pattée; wedges in first and fourth quarters / DOR/ES • TA/TVS in three lines. Coupland, Money 1 var. (wedge in first quarter only); Depeyrot 416; M&G 336 var. (obv. legend); MEC 1, 771 var. (pellets in second and third quarters). Light iridescent toning, porous, edge chipped. VF. Very rare.

From the Simon Coupland Collection.

Dorestad is now no more than a small Dutch town, Wijk bij Duurstede, but in the ninth century it was the largest port in northern Europe. Trade, taxation, and the need to convert foreign silver into Carolingian coin meant that its mint was one of the most productive in the Frankish empire. The Class 2 coins of Louis the Pious from Dorestad have a variety of privy marks on both faces, none of which is common. This one has wedges in two quadrants of the cross and a pellet in the emperor's name, as well as one at the centre of the reverse. [S. Coupland]

Closing Date and Time: 15 July 2020 at 11:58:40 ET.

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