Watch List notes:

CAROLINGIANS. Charlemagne (Charles the Great). As Charles I, King of the Franks, 768-814. AR Denier (21.5mm, 1.66 g, 3h). Bituricas (Bourges) mint. + CARLVS REX FR, cross pattée / + BITVRICΛ(horizontal S), Karolus monogram. Coupland, Charlemagne –; Depeyrot 174; M&G 173; MEC 1, 739. Good VF, toned, some crystallization. Very rare.


Ex iNumis (23 April 2013), lot 47.