375, Lot: 758. Estimate $75. 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 (22mm, 0.92 g, 4h). Immobilized type of Melle mint of Charles le Chauve. Metallum (Melle) mint. Struck under the Counts of Poitou (and Dukes of Aquitaine) circa AD 900-950 or later. + CΛRLV(retrograde S) REX R (sic), cross pattée / MET/•/ΛLO in three lines. Cf. Depeyrot 629 (for type); M&G –; MEC –; Fécamp 8381-7. Fine, toned, once creased flan.

From the R.D. Frederick Collection.