Sale: CNG 78, Lot: 2138. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 May 2008.  Sold For $1950. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of Wessex. Aethelstan. 924-939. AR Penny (1.52 g, 3h). Circumscription Rosette type. Shrewsbury mint; Eofermund, moneyer. + ÆÐELSTΛN REX TOB, rosette / + EOFERMVND M SCROB, rosette. Blunt, Aethelstan 366; SCBI 34 (BM), 196; North 680; SCBC 1098. VF, toned, a little wavy, double struck on obverse. Very rare.

From the Ross Schraeder Collection.