Watch List notes:

CAROLINGIANS. Louis 'le Pieux' (the Pious). As Emperor Louis I, 814-840. AR Denier (19mm, 1.38 g, 9h). Class 3. Unspecified (Melle) mint. Struck 822-840. + HLVDOVVICVS IIIP, cross pattée; pellets in quarters / +PISTIΛNΛ RELICIO, temple façade. Coupland, Money –, but since assigned in his schema to Group M (for Melle); Depeyrot 1179; M&G 472; MEC 1, –. Good VF, toned.

From the Simon Coupland Collection, purchased from Andy Singer, February 2009. Ex Sombart – Delorme Collin du Bocage (10 October 2008), lot 55 (part of); Trésor de Luzancy, no. 96.