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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Orielensis, post: 4042143, member: 96898&quot;]Beautiful coins. Do I maybe see a bit of a Carolingian collecting focus evolving here?</p><p><br /></p><p>Also, the toning on that Charles the Bald denier is simply wow! A truly great example. My own denier of that type is from a different mint and not even half as nice.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1060821[/ATTACH] </p><p><font size="3">Western Carolingian Empire, Charles the Bald, AR denier, 840–877 AD, &quot;Curtisasonien&quot; mint (Courcessin or Courgeon). Obv: +CRATIA D-I REX; Karolus monogram. Rev: +HCVRTISASONIEH; cross. 19.5mm, 1.69g. Ref: MEC I, 860–864.</font></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>That often happens to me with coins from that period. I got the one below at a good price, believing it to be a late, heavily blundered Otto-Adelheid-Penny. Upon closer inspection, it turned out to be a much less common issue of the Magdeburg Imperial mint. A pleasant surprise!</p><p><font size="3">[ATTACH=full]1060820[/ATTACH] </font></p><p><font size="3">Magdeburg, Imperial mint, &quot;Saxon penny,&quot; probably issued under Otto III (r. 983–1002 AD) and Archbishop Giselher (984–1004 AD). Obv: ...I M I... (corrupted MAGADEBURG); &quot;wooden church&quot; with four pellets inside; three pellets to l. and r. Rev: ...EI°III... (corrupted IN NOMINE DNI AMEN), cross pattée. 16mm, 1.27g. Ref: Dannenberg 1330; Mehl 30; Kilger Mg HP 1; Slg Hauswaldt 14.</font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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