Sale: CNG 78, Lot: 2139. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 May 2008.  Sold For $1400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of Wessex. Eadred. 946-955. AR Penny (1.35 g, 6h). Circumscription cross/Horizontal (HT 1 NE) type. North-Eastern mint; Hunred, moneyer. + EADRED REX Γ, small cross pattée / HVNR/ED MO in two lines; \ above and below, + x + between. CTCE 96; SCBI 34 (BM), 570 var. (same obv. die; pellet on rev.); BMC -; North 706; SCBC 1113. Good VF, toned, an area of flat strike.

From the Ross Schraeder Collection.