Watch List notes:

CAROLINGIANS. Louis 'le Pieux' (the Pious), as Emperor Louis I, 814-840. Denier (Silver, 20 mm, 1.49 g, 12 h), Venecias (Venice), 819-822. ✠HLVDOVVCVS IMP Cross pattée. Rev. ✠VEN/ECIAS in two lines. Depeyrot 1116. MEC 1, 789. Nicely toned and very rare with HLVDOVVCVS instead of HLVDOVVICVS. Some deposits, otherwise, very fine.


From the collection of a Swiss scholar, formed over the past thirty years.