Watch List notes:

CAROLINGIANS. temp. Louis d'Outremer – Lothaire. 936-986. AR Denier (22mm, 1.55 g, 11h). Immobilized type of Melle mint of Charles le Chauve or Charles le Simple (the Simple). Struck circa AD 955-960 or later. + CΛRLV(retrograde S) REX R, cross pattée / MET/ΛLO in two lines; cross pattée above and below. Cf. Depeyrot 629 (for type); M&G –; MEC –; Fécamp 8414-20. EF, lightly toned, traces of underlying luster.