Watch List notes:

CAROLINGIANS. Louis 'le Pieux' (the Pious). As Emperor Louis I, 814-840. AR Denier (20mm, 1.70 g, 12h). Class 2 var.. Metallum (Melle) mint. Struck circa 819-822. + HLVDOVVICVS IMP, cross pattée / + METALLVM, cross pattée. Coupland, Money, p. 33; Depeyrot 611; M&G 400; MEC 1, 762. VF, toned, tiny hairline flan crack, minor roughness.

From the Michael Joffre Collection.