408, Lot: 616. Estimate $300. Sold for $220. 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 (20mm, 4.58 g, 9h). Class 2. Palatina Mone(ta) (Palace) mint. Struck 864-877 and later. + GRΛTIΛ D–I REX, Karolus monogram; L and S retrograde and transposed / + PΛLΛTINΛ MONE, cross pattée. Depeyrot 896; cf. M&G 633 (for type); cf. MEC 1, 884 (same); cf. Lasser Collection (Triton XVIII), lot 1421 (same). Near EF, toned, trace of hard green deposit on reverse. Rare variety.