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Melle Mint

CNG 99, Lot: 935. Estimate $500.
Sold for $575. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CAROLINGIANS. Louis 'le Pieux' (the Pious). As Emperor Louis I, 814-840. AR Denier (22mm, 1.73 g, 3h). Class 2. Metallum (Melle) mint. Struck 819-822. + HLVDOVVICVS IMP, cross pattée / META/LLVM in two lines. Coupland, Money, Class II, 3; Depeyrot 609; cf. M&G 398 (for type); MEC 1, 774-776. Good VF, toned. Well struck.


From the Michael Joffre Collection.