409, Lot: 771. Estimate $100. Sold for $70. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CAROLINGIANS. temp. Charles le Simple (the Simple) – Louis d’Outremer. 898-954. AR Denier (21mm, 0.95 g, 8h). Immobilized type of Melle mint of Charles le Chauve or Charles le Simple. Struck circa AD 900-950. + CΛRIV(retrograde S) REX R, cross pattée / MET/ΛLO in two lines. Cf. Depeyrot 629 (for type); M&G –; MEC –; cf. Fécamp 8401 (same). VF, toned.

From the Norman Frank Collection.