Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 1124. Estimate $5000.  Closing Date: Monday, 5 January 2009.  Sold For $9500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of Mercia. Coenwulf. 796-821. AR Penny (1.32 g, 12h). Group IV, Pincer Cross type. Canterbury mint; Diormod, moneyer. Struck circa 815-821. + COENVVLF REX m, diademed bust right / + DIORmOD mONETΛ around pincer cross. Blunt, Coinage 44e (this coin, illustrated); SCBI 20 (Mack), 583; BMC 68; North 347; SCBC 916. Good VF, attractively toned. Good metal. Very rare.

Ex Lawrence R. Stack Collection (Sotheby’s, 22 April 1999), lot 305; A.E. Bagnall Collection; G.C. Drabble Collection (Part II, Glendining, 13 December 1943), lot 810; W. Talbot Ready Collection (Sotheby, Wilkinson,& Hodge, 15 November 1920), lot 34.