Watch List notes:

CAROLINGIANS. Charlemagne (Charles the Great). As Charles I, King of the Franks, 768-814. AR Denier (17mm, 1.19 g, 10h). Class 2. Lugdunum (Lyon) mint. Struck 771-793/4. C(AR)o/LV•S• in two lines / LUG/DUN in two lines; • between, ••• below. Coupland, Charlemagne –; Depeyrot 520; M&G 165; cf. MEC 1, 726 (for type). Good VF, toned, some porosity.


Ex Joseph R. Lasser Collection for the benefit of The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation (Triton XVIII, 6 January 2015), lot 1375, purchased from Jean Elsen, 30 September 2009; Crinon-Alde 38 (18 June 2009), lot 80.