CNG 93, Lot: 1868. Estimate $1500. Sold for $1900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of Wessex. Edward the Elder. 899-924. AR Penny (22mm, 1.55 g, 6h). Circumscription cross/Horizontal-Trefoil 1 (HT1) type (BMC ii). NE Mercia (possibly Stamford) dies; Warmer, moneyer. Late II period, circa 920-924. + EADVVEARD REX, small cross pattée / VVAR/MER M–Θ in two lines; trefoil above and below; three small cross pattées between. CTCE 287; SCBI 26 (East Anglia), 166–7 (same obv. die); BMC 58; North 649; SCBC 1087. Superb EF, toned.

Ex Baldwin’s 52 (25 September 2007), lot 179; Richard Cyril Lockett Collection (Glendining, 26 April 1960), lot 3673 (part of); Glendining (13 November 1930), lot 103 (part of).