445, Lot: 548. Estimate $200. Sold for $220. 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 à la porte (20mm, 1.70 g, 9h). Class 1. Aurelianis (Orléans) mint. Struck 840-864. Cross pattée; pellets in quarters / Two-towered city-gate façade with post-and-lintel entry; pellets to left and right; below, long bar above cross. Depeyrot 725; M&G 944; cf. MEC 1, 835 (for type). Good VF, lightly toned. Rare.

From the Ealing Collection. Ex CNG Inventory 732901 (September 2002).