Triton XIX, Lot: 861. Estimate $5000. Sold for $3000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Archbishops of Canterbury. Wulfred. 805-832. AR Penny (21mm, 1.31 g, 6h). Group VI. ‘Baldred’ type. Canterbury mint; Swefheard, moneyer. Struck circa 823/4-825/6. + VVLFRED ARCHIEPIS, tonsured bust facing in circle / + SVVEFHERD MONET, DRVR CITS in two lines, two bars above. Naismith C68b = EMC 2006.0366 (this coin); Blunt, Coinage 17a (same obv die); cf. SCBI 20 (Mack), 659; cf. BMC 28; North 239; SCBC 891. Good VF, small edge crack at 11 o’clock. An extremely rare type.

From the Dr. Andrew Wayne Collection, purchased from Spink, 13 December 2006. Found Cambridgeshire, by 2006.

Struck by Wulfred during Baldred’s brief ascendancy in Kent following the deposition of Ceolwulf I of Mercia in 823.