Sale: CNG 75, Lot: 1458. Estimate $150.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 23 May 2007.  Sold For $220. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of Northumbria. Aethelred II. First reign, 841-843/4. Æ Styca (1.31 g, 9h). Phase II, group Ai. York mint; Leofthegn, moneyer. +EDELRED R, cross pattée / +LEOFDEtN (N retrograde), pellet-in-annulet in linear circle. Pirie 231 (same dies); North 188; SCBC 865. Good VF. Attractive surfaces.

From the Beowulf Collection.