Exceptional Group of Late Melle Deniers

CNG 94, Lot: 1573. Estimate $300. Sold for $575. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CAROLINGIANS. Charles le Simple (the Simple). As Charles IV, King of West Francia, 898-922. AR Denier (22mm, 1.50 g, 12h). Immobilized type of Melle mint of Charles le Chauve. Metallum (Melle) mint. Struck circa AD 955-960 or later. + CΛRLV(retrograde S) REX R (sic), cross pattée / MET/ΛLO in two lines; pellet above and below. Cf. Depeyrot 629 (for type); M&G –; MEC –; Fécamp 8404-13. EF, lightly toned, traces of underlying luster.