325, Lot: 773. Estimate $100. Sold for $170. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CAROLINGIANS. temp. Charles le Simple (the Simple) – Lothaire. 898-986. AR Denier (22mm, 0.97 g, 5h). Immobilized type of Metallum (Melle) mint of Charles le Chauve or Charles le Simple. Struck circa AD 900-960. + CΛRLVS REX R (S retrograde), cross pattée / MET/•/ΛLO in three lines. Cf. Depeyrot 629 (for type); M&G –; MEC –; cf. Fécamp 8388-8400 and 8404-8413. VF, toned.