Watch List notes:

CAROLINGIANS. Louis 'le Pieux' (the Pious). As Emperor Louis I, 814-840. AV Solidus (21mm, 4.43 g, 12h). Contemporary imitation of Aix-la-Chapelle (Aachen) mint issue. Uncertain mint in Frisia. Struck circa 830-850. DИИLVVDOVIИIIOΛVC, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / LVIMHIDVNVH, small cross pattée within wreath with /|\ ties. Grierson, Gold, Type VII(a) (this coin); cf. Prou 1076; cf. BMC Carolingians 78; MEC 1, –; Schulten (25 October 1984), lot 1126 (same dies). VF, toned, struck with worn dies, metal flaw in field. Extremely rare for these dies.


From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams. Ex H. Osborne O'Hagan Collection (Part III, Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 27 April 1908), lot 3 (purchased by Henry Chapman).