CNG 97, Lot: 1001. Estimate $2000. Sold for $2400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Anglo-Viking (Danish East Anglia). Imitations of Alfred the Great. Circa 885-915. AR Halfpenny (16mm, 0.64 g, 3h). Londonia monogram type. Mint in East Anglia (Ipswich?). EIV RED+ flanking diademed and draped bust right / Retrograde LONDONIA monogram; cross above and below. SCBI –; cf. BMC 112; North 466 var. (bust left); SCBC 969. EMC 2001.0650 (this coin). Good VF, toned, some edge loss. Attractive portrait. Very rare.

From the Collection of an Underwriter. Ex Spink Numismatic Circular CXVI.4 (August 2008), no. HS3441; Spink Numismatic Circular CI.8 (October 1993), no. 7121. Found near Thetford, Norfolk.