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254, Lot: 392. Estimate $300.
Sold for $600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CAROLINGIANS. Charlemagne (Charles the Great) or Charles le Chauve (the Bald). As Charles I, King of the Franks, 768-814 or as Charles II, King of West Francia, 840-877. AR Denier (22mm, 1.58 g, 4h). Metallum (Melle) mint. Struck 793/4-812, or 840-877. Cross pattée / Karolus monogram. Coupland, Charlemagne -; Depeyrot 606; M&G 1063; MEC 1, 923-33. Good VF, toned.


New research by Guillaume Sarah (“Charlemagne, Charles the Bald, and the Karolus Monogram Coinage,” in NC 2010) indicates that monogram deniers with the legend CΛRLVS REX FR were struck as late as the reign of Charles le Chauve. While Sarah’s metallurgical analyses identified particular issues, without hoard provenance, or until a die study is completed, attribution of these issues of Melle to either Charles is not possible.