Extremely Rare Derby Mint Eadgar – Reform Type

CNG 85, Lot: 1445. Estimate $7500. Sold for $15000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of All England. Eadgar. 959-975. AR Penny (20mm, 1.60 g, 3h). Reform small cross type (BMC vi). Derby mint; Asulfr, moneyer. Struck circa 972/3-975. + EΛDGΛR REX ΛNGL(ORX), diademed bust left / + OSVLF MO– DERBУ, small cross pattée. SCBI -; BMC 8 var. (DEORBУ); North 752; SCBC 1141. Good VF, toned, a couple flat areas on bust. Pleasing portrait. Extremely rare, Jonsson records only three coins of this moneyer at Derby, from one obverse and two reverse dies.

From the Marie Karlsson Collection.

Assuming the obverse die Jonsson cites is the one used for the BMC coin, this coin’s obverse die must be unrecorded.