Ex Stack, Mack, Lockett, and Parsons Collections

CNG 96, Lot: 1398. Estimate $4000. Sold for $6500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of Mercia. Coenwulf. 796-821. AR Penny (18mm, 1.23 g, 6h). Cross-and-Wedges type. Caentwarabyrig (Canterbury) mint; Wærheard, moneyer. Struck 805-circa 810. + COENVVLF REX m, diademed bust right / + VER(HE)ΛRDI mO(NE)TA, cross pattée with wedges in quarters. Naismith C28D = SCBI 20 (Mack), 580 (this coin); BMC 85; North 344; SCBC 915. Good VF, toned, minor die rust, a few minor scratches. Very rare, only 11 examples in Naismith.

From the Andrew Wayne Collection. Ex Spink 158 (27 March 2002), lot 334; Lawrence R. Stack Collection (Sotheby's, 22 April 1999), lot 303; Spink Numismatic Circular XCII/9 (November 1984), no. 7413; Richard Paston Mack Collection (not in Glendining sales); Harry Alexander Parsons Collection (Glendining, 11 May 1954), lot 113.

The pedigree to Lockett 368 listed in Naismith and NumCirc XCII/9 is erroneous.