Ex Garrett and Evans Collections

CNG 97, Lot: 993. Estimate $1500. Sold for $1800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of East Anglia. Edmund. 855-869. AR Penny (20mm, 1.23 g, 12h). Mint in East Anglia (Ipswich?); Eadmund, moneyer. Struck 855-circa 862. + EADMVND REX AN (three pellets), large barred A / + EADMVND MONE (three pellets), cross pattée; pellets in angles. Naismith E58g = Pagan, Coinage, p. 75, Type IV, 2 = SCBI 30 (American), 233 = EMC 1030.0233 (this coin); BMC 54–7; North 456; SCBC 954. VF, toned. Bold strike.

From the Collection of an Underwriter. Ex Classical Numismatic Group Inventory, no. 914497 (December 2011); John Work Garrett Collection (Part II, Leu/Numismatic Fine Arts, 16 October 1984), lot 736 (purchased from the Chapman Bros., 1920); Sir John Evans Collection.