Watch List notes:

CAROLINGIANS. temp. Charles le Simple (the Simple) – Louis d'Outremer. 898-954. AR Denier (21.5mm, 1.12 g, 9h). Immobilized type of Melle mint of Charles le Chauve. Metallum (Melle) mint. Struck under the Counts of Poitou (and Dukes of Aquitaine) circa AD 900-950 or later. + CΛRLV(retrograde S) REX R (sic), cross pattée / MET/•/ΛLO in three lines. Cf. Depeyrot 629 (for type); M&G –; MEC –; Fécamp 8381-7. Toned. Near VF.