Watch List notes:

CAROLINGIANS. Charlemagne (Charles the Great). As Charles I, King of the Franks, 768-814. AR Denier (18mm, 1.34 g, 3h). Class 2. Mag[ontiacum] (Mainz) mint. Struck 771-793/4. C(AR)o/·/LVS in three lines / + D/MΛG/CS in three lines. Coupland, Charlemagne 5; Depeyrot 5765; M&G 262 (citing the Gariel 82); cf. Gariel 82 (for type); Prou –; BM 15; MEC I, –. Find patina. EF. Exceptional for issue.

Ex Dr. Eckhart Pick Collection (Peus 405, 3 November 2011), lot 4; Künker 25 (29 September 1993), lot 1455; Credit de la Bourse (26 April 1993), lot 57.