Very Rare Chinon et Tours Mint

Triton XVIII, Lot: 1440. Estimate $1000. Sold for $600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CAROLINGIANS. temp. Charles le Simple (the Simple). As Charles IV, King of West Francia, 898-922. AR Denier (20mm, 1.36 g, 2h). Cainon Casitro/Turones (Chinon et Tours) mint. + CΛINON CΛSITRO, Karolus monogram / + TVRONES CIVITΛS, cross pattée; quadrate O in legend. Depeyrot 321; M&G –; Gariel pl. XLIX, 4; MEC 1, –; Duplessy, Féodales, 413; Poey d’Avant 1668. Good VF, toned. Very rare.

From the Joseph R. Lasser Collection for the benefit of The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, purchased from Wade Hinderling, 20 June 2010.