Watch List notes:

France, Louis le Pieux ('the Pious') AR Denier. Uncertain mint, AD 822-840. + H VDOVVICVS IMP (sic.), cross pattée, with pellet in each quarter; all within beaded border / + XPISTIA[..] RELIGIO, pedimented tetrastyle temple on two steps. Cf. MEC 1, 794 and 800 (for type). 1.41g, 20mm.

Very Fine. Very Rare with no cross between columns.

From a private French collection.