389, Lot: 1176. Estimate $300. Sold for $300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of All England. Æthelred II. 978-1016. AR Penny (19mm, 1.56 g, 6h). Long Cross type (BMC iva, Hild. D). Lincolne (Lincoln) mint; Ubeinn, moneyer. Struck circa 997-1003. Draped bust left / + VN BEIN MΩΘ LI(NC), voided long cross, with pellet at center and triple crescent ends. Mossop pl. XV, 20 (dies B/c); SCBI 7 (Copenhagen), 622–3; North 774; SCBC 1151. VF, toned, area of flat strike.

From the J. Eric Engstrom Collection.