271, Lot: 193. Estimate $4000. Sold for $7000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of Wessex. Aethelwulf. 839-858. AR Penny (20mm, 1.14 g, 6h). Cross Crosslet type (BMC xi/Brooke class 7). Caentwarabyrig (Canterbury) mint; Deor, moneyer. Phase II, circa 843-848. + EÐELVVLF REX, diademed bust right / + DIΛR MONITΛ, cross crosslet. SCBI -; BMC 43 var. (rev. legend); North 610; SCBC 1047. Near EF, toned. Rare.

Property of Princeton Economics acquired by Martin Armstrong. Ex Spink 128 (7 October 1998), lot 314; Joseph P. Linzalone Collection (Stack’s, 7 December 1994), lot 2347; Richard Cyril Lockett Collection (Part X.iv, Glendining, 26 April 1960), lot 3618.