Superb Æthelweard

CNG 97, Lot: 989. Estimate $5000. Sold for $8000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of East Anglia. Æthelweard. Circa 845-855. AR Penny (20mm, 1.08 g, 6h). Mint in East Anglia (Ipswich?); Æthelhelm, moneyer. EÐEL•P(three pellets)ARD REX (P inverted), cross pattée; outward-facing crescents in angles / AEÐEL•HEL•M, cross pattée; pellets in angles. Naismith E48.1h = EMC 1998.0116 corr. (this coin, moneyer incorrect in EMC); SCBI 2 (Hunterian), 417 var. (legends); BMC 22 var. (legends); BMA 268; North 452; SCBC 953. Near EF, toned, small area of weak strike. Very rare.

From the Collection of an Underwriter, purchased from Baldwin’s, December 2012. Ex Axel John “Peter” Arnot Collection (Buckland, Dix and Wood, 21 March 1995), lot 50.