Ex Terner, Stack, Lovejoy, Dresser, and Lord Grantley Collections

CNG 97, Lot: 991. Estimate $2000. Sold for $2200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of East Anglia. Æthelweard. Circa 845-855. AR Penny (20mm, 1.22 g, 6h). Mint in East Anglia (Ipswich?); Eadmund, moneyer. AEÐELVVEARD REX, large A / + EADMVND M (runic A or composite of ONA)•, cross pattée; wedges in angles. Naismith E50j-k corr. = SCBI 30 (American), 232 = EMC 1030.0232 (this coin); BMC 28; North 450; SCBC 953. Good VF, toned, minor edge loss (the result of prior slabbing). Very rare.

From the Collection of an Underwriter. Ex St. James’s 11 (8 May 2009), lot 16; Millennia [Jacob Y. Terner] Collection (Goldberg, 26 May 2008), lot 196; Lawrence R. Stack Collection (Sotheby's, 22 April 1999), lot 344; Allen F. Lovejoy Collection (Stack’s, 2 December 1997), lot 1421; John L. Dresser Collection (Stack’s, 4 May 1995), lot 2180; Lord Grantley Collection (Part III, Glendining, 22 March 1944), lot 911.

Naismith E50j and E50k are the same coin. The appearance that these were two different coins was likely caused by the edge loss that was sustained when the coin was slabbed for the Millenia sale.

The final letter in the reverse legend has been recognized as a Runic letter, which Naismith identifies as the letter O, as the second letter of the word MONETA. The composition of the letter on the coin, however is somewhat different from a Runic O, and appears more like the Runic A with a slight leftward extension of the lower horizontal bar. The letter might also be a composite of ONA, which also comports with the canonical legend MONETA.