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411, Lot: 507. Estimate $300.
Sold for $190. 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 (20mm, 1.80 g, 8h). Class 2. Palatina Mone(ta) (Palace) mint. Struck 864-877 and later. + CRΛTIΛ D–I REX, Karolus monogram / + PΛLΛTINΛ MOИE, cross pattée. Coupland, Early –; Depeyrot 750; M&G 629 corr. (pellet after C); MEC 1, –. VF, darkly toned. Rare variety.


From the Simon Coupland Collection.

On the identification of the mint, see the previous entry. The high weight of this coin, higher than the Carolingian norm of 1.70g, indicates that it, too, dates from the reign of Charles the Bald rather than that of Charles the Simple. [S. Coupland]