Sale: CNG 78, Lot: 2120. Estimate $1000. Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 May 2008. Sold For $1460. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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ANGLO-SAXON, Archbishop of Canterbury. Ceolnoth. 833-870. AR Penny (1.24 g, 12h). Group I. Wynhere, moneyer. Struck circa 833-850. + CIΛLNOÐ ΛRC, tonsured bust facing / + VVHERE mONETΛ, monogram of
Dorobernia Civi. SCBI 9 (Ashmolean), 49; BMC 58; North 241; SCBC 893. VF, toned, ragged edge. Very rare.
From the Ross Schraeder Collection. Ex Davissons 12 (November 1999), lot 121.