271, Lot: 188. Estimate $5000. Sold for $13000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of Kent. Baldred. Circa 823-825. AR Penny (20mm, 1.30 g, 9h). Non-Portrait type (Group II). Caentwarabyrig (Canterbury) mint; Sigestaef, moneyer. + BELDRED REX CΛ(NT), small cross pattée / + SIGESTEF, small cross pattée. SCBI -; Blunt, Coinage Ba 12b = J. Evans, “On a Hoard of Early Anglo-Saxon Coins Found in Ireland,” NumCirc II (1882), p. 63, no. 5 (this coin); BMC -; North 213; SCBC 880; IBCH 117 (for hoard; this coin cited). Choice EF, find patina. Extremely rare.

Property of Princeton Economics acquired by Martin Armstrong. Ex Lawrence R. Stack Collection (Sotheby’s London 9443, 22 April 1999), lot 249; Spink Numismatic Circular XCVII.9 (November 1989), no. 5888; T. W. J. D. Dupree Collection (purchased en bloc by Spink, 1989); Clonterbrook Trust Collection (Glendining, 7 June 1974), lot 2; Richard Cyril Lockett Collection (Part X.iv, 26 April 1960), lot 3549; Right Hon. Lord Grantley Collection (Part II, Glendining, 28 January 1944), lot 890; Sir John Evans Collection; Delgany Hoard, County Wicklow, Ireland (deposited circa 835, found 1874).