Sale: CNG 60, Lot: 2173. Estimate $7500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 22 May 2002.  Sold For $6000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Aethelred II. 978-1016. AR Penny (1.73 gm). Long cross type, circa 997-1003. Milborne Port mint. Æthelric, moneyer. + ÆDELRÆD REX ANGLORX (NG and OR ligate), bare headed bust left / + ÆD-ELRI-C M'O MYLE, long voided cross with central pellet. North 774; SCBI 7 (Copenhagen II) 999 (same dies?); R.H.M. Dolley, "The Coinage of Milborne Port," BNJ XXIX (1958-1959), 2d, pl. IV, 8 (this coin); Seaby 1151. Toned VF. ($7500)

Dr. William J. Conte Collection of Late Anglo Saxon, Part 2; ex Peter Spink Collection; Norweb Collection, pt. 4 (Spink, 17 June 1987), lot 1217; F. Elmore Jones Collection (Glendining's, 12-13 May 1971), lot 583; Duke of Argyll Collection (collection purchased en bloc by Spink, 1949); Lord Grantley Collection (Glendining's, 22 March 1944), lot 1131.