From the Firth and Lord Grantley Collections

Triton XVII, Lot: 1422. Estimate $7500. Sold for $7500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of Mercia. Coenwulf. 796-821. AR Penny (19mm, 1.25 g, 6h). Portrait type. Uncertain mint in East Anglia, possibly Gipeswic (Ipswich); Lul, moneyer. Struck circa 800-821. + COEVVLF REX (Mercian M with horizontal line above), diademed bust right / + L V L within angles of long cross fourchée, with pellet in each outer angle. Naismith E10.2; Blunt, Coinage, Cn 98j (this coin); SCBI –; BMC –; North 363; SCBC 919. EF, attractive dark cabinet tone. Rare.

Ex C. J. Firth Collection (Spink 1, 11 October 1978), lot 97 (ticket included); Lord Grantley Collection (Part III, Glendining, 22 March 1944), lot 847; Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge (4 July 1891), lot 275.