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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;+VGO.DVCKS, post: 4906257, member: 110504&quot;]Magnificent example, [USER=82616]@David Atherton[/USER].&nbsp; If you&#039;ve got something on the BM and the Louvre, that just Gets to be Good Enough. </p><p>This is one I posted a while ago, but it&#039;s too much along the same lines as yours not to post again.&nbsp; And if that wasn&#039;t being lazy enough, I&#039;m copying and pasting the description from that post (&#039;No Century for Old Men&#039;):[ATTACH=full]1183796[/ATTACH]</p><p>Charles III le Simple, King of Francia 898-923, or Hugues le Grand /Hugh Magnus, Dux Francorum 936-956. (Father of Hugues Capet.) AR denier, Senlis.</p><p>Rev. (In two lines, crosslets above and below): SILVA NECTIS (the &#039;N&#039; ligated with the &#039;E,&#039; and the final &#039;S&#039; retrograde); medieval Latin for &#039;Senlis.&#039;</p><p>Obv. &#039;KAROLVS&#039; monogram --or &#039;HVIIO DVX&#039; around a small cross (?).</p><p>+GRATIA D-I REX.</p><p>Depeyrot 915, Nouchy 268 (if Carolingian); Duplessy (Feodales) 6, Legros 44 (if Robertian.)</p><p>I only know of the Legros citation from this listing by Leu Numismatik:</p><p><a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=2313689" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=2313689" rel="nofollow">https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=2313689</a></p><p>...Sure, I <i>want</i> it to be Hugues le Grand, but without a better eye, it&#039;s a tough call. On the other hand, even in its present state, there are enough nuances to suggest Hugues over Charles le Simple. On the reverse, the ligated &#039;NE&#039; at the beginning of the second line, rather than an &#039;IE,&#039; distinguishes it (like the example from Leu Numismatik) from any Carolingian issues I&#039;ve seen. Similarly, enough of the obverse, &#039;GRATIA D-I REX&#039; legend is discernible to establish that it&#039;s not retrograde, as much of it is on the Carolingian ones I can find in print. Meanwhile, the only examples of Senlis in Dumas (Fecamp) have a completely different legend, presumably from later in the century than either Charles or Hugues (6598-9).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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