Watch List notes:

CAROLINGIANS. Charlemagne (Charles the Great). As Charles I, King of the Franks, 768-814. AR Denier (19mm, 1.24 g, 9h). Class 2. Medolus (Melle) mint. Struck 771-793/4. C(ΛR)o/•/LVS in two lines / mEDOLVS around central ornament; L with hook. Coupland, Charlemagne –; Depeyrot 605; M&G 268; MEC 1, 728. VF, deeply toned.


From the RD Frederick Collection. Ex Spink 65 (5 October 1988), lot 299.