Ex Lockett Collection and Vatican Hoard

CNG 97, Lot: 1006. Estimate $1000. Sold for $800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of Wessex. Edward the Elder. 899-924. AR Penny (22mm, 1.33 g, 11h). Local imitation of Circumscription cross/Horizontal-Trefoil 1 (HT 1) type (BMC ii). + EARARB• RVE, small cross pattée / EDREO VREG (lower R and G inverted) in two lines; +++ between. M.A. O’Donovan “The Vatican Hoard of Anglo-Saxon Pennies” in BNJ XXXIII, 405 (this coin, illustrated); SCBI –; BMC –; North 649; SCBC 1087. Good VF, toned, area of find deposit on reverse.

From the Collection of an Underwriter, purchased from York Coins, February 2009. Ex Richard Cyril Lockett Collection (Part X, 26 April 1960), lot 3675a; 1926 Vatican Hoard, no. 405.