Rare Muled Reverse Dies

Triton XVIII, Lot: 1699. Estimate $200. Sold for $325. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Archbishops of York. Wigmund. 837-849/50. Æ Styca (12.5mm, 1.22 g, 3h). Phase II, Group Ci. Eoferwic (York) mint; Edilueard, moneyer. + EDILVEVRD around central cross pattée / + EDILVEARD around central cross pattée. Pirie 712 (same dies); Pirie, Guide 3.21c (same dies as illustration); cf. North 196; cf. SCBC 870. VF, brown surfaces. Rare mule using two reverse dies.

From the Joseph R Lasser Collection for the benefit of The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. Ex Elsen FPL 249 (July-September 2009), no. 495.