Triton XVII, Lot: 1425. Estimate $1500. Sold for $900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of Wessex. Edward the Elder. 899-924. AR Penny (22mm, 1.61 g, 5h). Circumscription cross/Horizontal-Trefoil 1 (HT 1) type (BMC ii). Mercia Northeast dies (Stanford [Stamford] mint?); Wulfheard, moneyer. Middle period II/Late period I, circa 915. + EADVVEARD REX, small cross pattée / VVLF(HE)/ARD M–O in two lines; +++ between, trefoils above and below. CTCE 301; SCBI 24 (West Country), 409 (same obv. die); BMC 65 var. (pellets on rev.); North 649; SCBC 1087. Good VF.