CAROLINGIANS. Charles le Chauve (the Bald). As Charles II, King of West Francia, 840-877. AR Denier (21mm, 1.76 g, 3h). Class 2. Curtisasonien (Courcessin or Courgeon) mint. Struck 864-877. + CRΛTIΛ D–I REX, Karolus monogram / + (HC)VRTISΛS◊NIEH, cross pattée. Depeyrot 375 (Courgeon); M&G 895 ("Curtisassonien"); MEC 1, 860-864 (Courcessin). VF, toned.
From the Simon Coupland Collection. Ex Vinchon (31 May 2017), lot 265 (part of); Vinchon (12 December 1962), lot 138.