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Triton XVIII, Lot: 1443. Estimate $1000.
Sold for $800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CAROLINGIANS. temp. Robert I. King of West Francia, 922-923. AR Denier (19mm, 1.19 g, 11h). Turon/Cainoni Castro (Chinon et Tours) mint. [T]VRON, diademed and mantled bust right / [+] CΛI[N]O[NI C]ASTR[O], cross pattée. Crinon, Catalogue, Group 1, Series 1, Variety 1, p. 73; Poey d’Avant 1670 = Fécamp pl. XIV = Crinon, “À propos de deniers inédits de Blois (Xe siècle): le monnayage à la tête dans les domaines de Thibaud de Tours et Thibaud Ier (durant les deux premiers tiers du Xe s.),” BSFN 48.1 (January 1993), p. 469. Good VF, darkly toned, areas of typical flat strike.


From the Joseph R. Lasser Collection for the benefit of The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. Ex Elsen 105 (12 June 2010), lot 391.