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June 26 & 27, 2013 - LONDON219219 (x1.5)219 Frankish Kingdom, Carolingians, Pepin the Short (751-68), Denier, 0.92g,Dorestadt, NPIPI, cross above, bar below, rev. RP monogram, bar above, cross withintrefoil below (Depeyrot 409; cf MEC I, 719), chipped, crack at 7 o’clock, brushed fields,nearly very fine, an important and rare find from an English location £2,000-2,500PROVENANCE:Found at Melbourne, Cambridgeshire, April 2012Recorded with the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, EMC 2013.0126Finds of early Carolingian Deniers in England are extremely rare, this being only the seventhrecorded. Others, none identical with this, have been found at Repton, West Hythe,Richborough, Seaford (East Sussex), Bere Regis, Dorset and Princes Risborough, Bucks (thelast, lot 123, Spink auction 26 June 2008). The Deniers of Pepin were the precedent for theintroduction of the broad flan penny coinage of Offa.220220 (x1.5)220 France, Charles VII (1422-61), Royal d’or, 3.74g, Montélimar, king standing facing,holding two sceptres, rev. cross fleury (Dup.455; F.303), slightly creased, about very fine £600-800221 France, Louis XII (1498-1515), Ecu d’or au Soleil, 3.34g, Bayonne, m.m. anchor at endof legend both sides, crowned shield, sun above, rev. floriate cross (Dup. 647; F.323),creased, only fine but legends and mint marks clear £120-150222222 (x1.5)222 France, Avignon, Pius IV (1559-65), Scudo d’oro, 2.95g, undated, PIVS IIII PONTIFEXMAX, Papal arms, rev. +CARO CARD BOVRBON LEGAT AVENIO, Cardinal’s arms (F.44;Munt.61), slightly wavy flan, extremely fine, extremely rare £2,000-3,00043