Watch List notes:

CAROLINGIANS. Louis 'le Pieux' (the Pious). As Emperor Louis I, 814-840. AR Denier (20.5mm, 1.35 g, 4h). Class 3. Unspecified (Melle) mint. Struck 822-840. + HLVDOVVICVS IMP, cross pattée; pellets in quarters / XPISTIANA RELIGIO, temple façade. Coupland, Money –, but since assigned in his schema to Group M (for Melle); Depeyrot 1179; M&G 472; MEC 1, –. Near EF, slightly irregular flan.

From the Simon Coupland Collection, purchased from ebaY France, December 2012.