Ex Bennett, Lord Grantley, and Cuff Collections

CNG 97, Lot: 997. Estimate $1500. Sold for $2200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of East Anglia. Edmund. 855-869. AR Penny (19.5mm, 1.23 g, 12h). Mint in East Anglia (Ipswich?); Eadwæld, moneyer. Struck circa 862-869. + EΛDMVИD REX, large A / + EΛDPΛLD MO:, cross pattée; pellets in angles. Naismith E66.1h corr. (this coin, rev. legend); SCBI 26 (East Anglia), 1075 (same dies); BMC 67 var. (rev. legend); North 456; SCBC 954. Near EF, toned, some spots of hard green encrustation.

From the Collection of an Underwriter. Ex Baldwin’s 80 (8 May 2013), lot 2172; Seaby Coin and Medal Bulletin 652 (December 1972), no. H3362; W. H. Bennett Collection (Glendining’s, 4 October 1972), lot 606; Lord Grantley Collection (Part III, Glendining, 22 March 1944), lot 913; James Dodsley Cuff Collection (Sotheby & Wilkinson, 8 June 1854), lot 33.

The correction noted above applies to Naismith E66.1f–j.