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SCBC Plate Coin

CNG 97, Lot: 988. Estimate $2500.
Sold for $3000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of East Anglia. Æthelstan I. Circa 827-845. AR Penny (20mm, 1.24 g, 9h). Mint in East Anglia (Ipswich?); Æthelhelm, moneyer. Struck circa 837/8-845. AEÐILSTAN REX (L inverted, S horizontal), cross pattée; wedges in angles / EÐILHELM MON, cross pattée; wedges in angles. Naismith E42.1e corr. (this coin, not chipped); SCBI 9 (Ashmolean), 59; BMC –; North 445; SCBC 951 (this coin illustrated [49th ed.]). Near EF, toned. Rare, and exceptional for issue.


From the Collection of an Underwriter, purchased from York Coins, May 2006. Ex Spink Numismatic Circular CIII.7 (September 1995), no. 4793.