271, Lot: 192. Estimate $7500. Sold for $17000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of East Anglia. Eadwald. Circa 796-798. AR Penny (20mm, 1.38 g, 2h). Eadnoth, moneyer. + E·:A·:D·:Λ·:A·:ΓD RE, cross pattée, with three pellets in each angle / Long beaded cross, with E AD И ◊D in angles; all within quatrefoil. Cf. Blunt, Coinage 1 (for rev. type); SCBI -; BMC -; North 433/1; SCBC 947A. Near EF, toned. Extremely rare.

Property of Princeton Economics acquired by Martin Armstrong. Ex Lawrence R. Stack Collection (Sotheby’s London 9443, 22 April 1999), lot 339; Christie’s London 4132 (10 October 1989), lot 457; Found at Brandon, Suffolk (EMC 1989.1001).