Triton XVIII, Lot: 1413. Estimate $500. Sold for $525. 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 à la porte (19mm, 1.59 g, 4h). Class 1. Aurelianis (Orléans) mint. Struck 840-864. + CΛRLVS REX FR, cross pattée; pellets in quarters / + ΛVRELΛNI(horizontal S), two-towered city-gate façade with post-and-lintel entry; pellets to left and right; below, long bar above +. Depeyrot 725; M&G 944 = Bibliothèque Royale, Brussels Inv. 109 (same rev. die); MEC 1, 835 var. (rev. legend). Good VF, toned. Rare.

From the Michael Joffre Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Review 27 (Summer 2002), no. 101.