CNG 96, Lot: 1057. Estimate $300. Sold for $450. 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, 1.65 g, 5h). Metallum (Melle) mint. + CΛRLV(retrograde S) REX R (sic), cross pattée / MET/ΛLO in two lines. Cf. Depeyrot 629 (for type); M&G –; MEC –; Fécamp 8381-7. EF, lightly toned, traces of underlying luster.