344, Lot: 541. Estimate $100. Sold for $260. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CAROLINGIANS. Louis 'le Pieux' (the Pious). As Emperor Louis I, 814-840. AR Obole (15mm, 0.70 g, 2h). Class 3. Unspecified (Dorestad?) mint. Struck 822-840. + HLVDOVVICV(horizontal S) IMP, cross pattée; pellets in quarters / + XPISTIANA REO, temple façade. Coupland, Money, Group B; Depeyrot 1180; M&G 473; MEC 1, –. VF, toned.

From the Michael Joffre Collection.