379, Lot: 424. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CAROLINGIANS. temp. Robert I. King of West Francia, 922-923. AR Denier (19mm, 1.50 g, 11h). Crinon Group 1, Series 1, Variety 1. Turon/Cainoni Castro (Chinon et Tours) mint. TVRON, diademed and mantled bust right / + CΛINONI CASTRO, cross pattée. Crinon, Catalogue, Group 1, Series 1, Variety 1, p. 73; Poey d’Avant 1670 = Fécamp pl. XIV = Crinon, “À propos de deniers inédits de Blois (Xe siècle): le monnayage à la tête dans les domaines de Thibaud de Tours et Thibaud Ier (durant les deux premiers tiers du Xe s.),” BSFN 48.1 (January 1993), p. 469. VF, toned, areas of weak strike. Very rare.