From Bird, Drabble and Carlyon-Britton
ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of Wessex. Æthelwulf. 839-858. AR Penny (20mm, 1.35 g, 2h). Cross and Wedges type (BMC v). Dorobernia (Canterbury) mint; Osmund, moneyer. Struck 839-circa 844. + EÐELVVLF RE:X, cross pattée over cross pattée in saltire / + OSMVND MO(NE)TΛ, SΛX/ONIO/RVM in three lines. Naismith C101q (this coin); SCBI 2 (Hunterian), 546 var. (obv. legend stops); BMC 29-30; North 596; SCBC 1044. Good VF, toned. Rare.
Ex Brian Bird Collection (Glendining, 20 November 1974), lot 24; Gilbert C. Drabble Collection (Glendining, 13 December 1943), lot 1109; P.W.P. Carlyon-Britton Collection (Part 2, Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 20 November 1916), 920.
