Obol, type 2


Obverse
Obverse legend
Reverse legend
Reverse

HLVDOVVICVS MP (circular legend around a cross surrounded by a circle made up of dots, a cross between the letter P and the letter H).

AQVI _ TANIA (inscribed in two lines).



Photo of the copy preserved at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France (public domain), link to the page of their website showing the photo of the coin: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10413348g.r=louis%20le%20pieux?rk=600861;2.

 

On the obverse, the letter I of IMP is not inscribed or is mixed with the letter M itself linked to the letter P. It is more an awkward engraving than a variant. So I noted IMP in the description of the obverse.


G F XF 40 AU 58 MS 63 MS 65
1 ? ? ? ? ? ?

Seems never to have gone on sale.