380, Lot: 543. Estimate $100. 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 (20mm, 0.86 g, 6h). Immobilized type of Melle mint of Charles le Chauve or Charles le Simple. Struck circa AD 900-950/5. CΛRLVS REX I (sic), cross pattée / MET/ΛLO in two lines. Cf. Depeyrot 629 (for type); M&G –; MEC –; cf. Fécamp 8381-7 (same). VF, minor area of weak strike in obverse legend, hint of flan split at 6 o’clock on obverse.