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411, Lot: 517. Estimate $300.
Sold for $180. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CAROLINGIANS. Charles le Simple (the Simple). As Charles IV, King of West Francia, 898-922. AR Denier (21.5mm, 1.24 g, 3h). Uncertain mint. + CΛRLVS REX, cross pattée / +RIΛИΛ RIEICIO X, Carolus monogram. Depeyrot 1197; M&G 1436-7; MEC 1, –. VF, toned, deposits. Rare.


From the Simon Coupland Collection. Ex Vinchon (31 May 2017), lot 265 (part of).

Unlike the Christiana religio coins of Charles the Bald, bearing a temple on the reverse, which survive in large numbers and were struck at several mints, these monogram Christiana religio coins in the name of a king Charles are known in small numbers and were probably the product of a single mint. The hoard evidence indicates that they are coins of Charles the Simple, minted in the early tenth century, and suggests that they may well have been minted at Langres. They have namely turned up in just two hoards, Langres 1880, which contained no fewer than seven specimens alongside a GDR denier of Langres itself, and Neufchâteau 2008, discovered less than 60 km from Langres. [S. Coupland]