385, Lot: 656. Estimate $100. Sold for $160. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CAROLINGIANS. Charles le Chauve (the Bald). As Charles II, King of West Francia, 840-877. AR Denier à la porte (20mm, 1.44 g, 7h). Class 1. Aurelianis (Orléans) mint. Struck 840-864. Cross pattée; pellets in quarters / Two-towered city-gate façade with post-and-lintel entry; pellets to left and right; below, long bar above cross. Depeyrot 725; M&G 944; cf. MEC 1, 835 (for type). EF, toned, edge chip.

From the estate of Thomas Bentley Cederlind.