271, Lot: 194. Estimate $3000. Sold for $7510. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of Wessex. Aethelberht. 858-865/6. AR Penny (20mm, 1.22 g, 12h). Inscribed Cross type (BMC i). Caentwarabyrig (Canterbury) mint; Beagmund, moneyer. Struck circa 858-862/4. + ΛEÐELBEΛR(HT) REX, diademed bust right / + BEΛHM/V(ND) MO/N E T Λ in and around the arms of a beaded cross. SCBI 1 (Fitzwilliam), 533; BMC 4; North 620; SCBC 1053. EF, lightly toned. Rare.

Property of Princeton Economics acquired by Martin Armstrong. Ex John Jordan Collection (Triton II, 1 December 1998), lot 1263; Joseph P. Linzalone Collection (Stack’s, 7 December 1994), lot 2349.