Ex Mack Collection and Vatican Hoard

CNG 85, Lot: 1444. Estimate $1500. Sold for $1800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of Wessex. Edward the Elder. 899-924. AR Penny (21mm, 1.64 g, 12h). Circumscription cross/Horizontal (HP1) type. Wessex (prob. Winchester) dies; Dryhtweald, moneyer. Middle II period, circa 910-915. + EΛDVVEΛRD REX, small cross pattée / + DУRHT/VΛLD MO in two lines across field, pellet above and below, three small crosses between. CTCE 152 (this coin referenced); SCBI 20 (Mack), 744 = M.A. O’Donovan “The Vatican Hoard of Anglo-Saxon Pennies” in BNJ XXXIII, 220 (this coin); BMC -; North 649; SCBC 1087. Good VF, toned, small die break on obverse. Very rare.

From the Collection of a Northern California Gentleman. Ex R.P. Mack Collection (Part II, Glendining, 23 March 1977), lot 85; Glendining (16 May 1929), lot 75c; Vatican Hoard, 220.