Watch List notes:

CAROLINGIANS. Charles le Chauve (the Bald). As Charles II, King of West Francia, 840-877. AR Denier (21mm, 1.66 g, 6h). Class 1. Paris mint. Struck 840-864. + CΛRLVS REX, cross pattée / PΛRI/•/SII in two lines. Depeyrot 761; cf. M&G 826; MEC 1, -; Haertle 51/027-9. Good VF, lightly toned. Rare.


A variety of this type sold in Crinon (16 June 2011), lot 42 for €2000.