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Triton XXIII 14-15 Jan 2020
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CAROLINGIANS. Louis 'le Pieux' (the Pious). As Emperor Louis I, 814-840. AR Denier (18.5mm, 1.36 g, 2 or 8h). Class 1. Metallum (Melle) mint. Struck 814-819. HLVDOVVICVS IMP AVG, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / + METALLVM, implements of coin minting: pair of dies, flanked on either side by mallet. Coupland, Money 3; Depeyrot 607; M&G 396; Gariel 73; MEC 1, 758. Toned, hairline flan crack. VF. Very rare.
Ex Künker 307 (18 June 2018), lot 7; Ex Collection J.-C. P... (Bourgey, 30 March 1990), lot 4.
Melle was the most productive mint in Carolingian France. On the reverse of this rare portrait issue we see the necessary tools of any medieval mint; a pair of dies and the hammers used to strike the coins.
Ex Künker 307 (18 June 2018), lot 7; Ex Collection J.-C. P... (Bourgey, 30 March 1990), lot 4.
Melle was the most productive mint in Carolingian France. On the reverse of this rare portrait issue we see the necessary tools of any medieval mint; a pair of dies and the hammers used to strike the coins.