Denier - Carloman II Auxerre mint

Carloman II inherited the West Frankish throne at roughly fifteen years old following the death of his brother Louis III in 882, ruling a kingdom fractured by Viking incursions and aristocratic defection. His five-year reign ended when he died from a hunting accident in 884 — a boar, by most accounts — leaving no legitimate heir and effectively ending the direct Carolingian male line in the West. The Auxerre mint was among the more active provincial operations under the late Carolingians, its output documented precisely because so few surviving coins from this reign exist to study.