CNG 109, Lot: 786. Estimate $300. Sold for $190. 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 (22mm, 1.55 g, 10h). Immobilized issue in the name of Charles the Simple. Metalo (Melle) mint. + CΛROLV(retrograde S) RE+ R, cross pattée / MET/ΛLO in two lines. Depeyrot 629 var. (obv. legend); M&G –; MEC –; Fécamp 8381-7. EF, lightly toned, traces of underlying luster.