Triton XVIII, Lot: 1703. Estimate $500. Sold for $850. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of Mercia. Burgred. 852-874. AR Penny (19mm, 0.99 g, 11h). Lunette Type A (BMC a). Lundene (London) mint; Leofa, moneyer. Struck circa 868-874. BVRGRED REX, bust right / + LEFE : across central field; ·: MON :· ·: ETA :· in lunettes above and below. SCBI 20 (Mack), 619 = N. Heywood, "The Kingdom and Coins of Burgred," BNJ 1906, 19 (this coin); BMC –; North 423; SCBC 938. Good VF, toned, minor roughness.

From the Joseph R Lasser Collection for the benefit of The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, purchased from Wade Hinderling, 24 June 2010. Ex Heritage 3008 (3 January 2010), lot 21547; R.P. Mack Collection (Part I, Glendining 18 November 1975), lot 90; P.W.P. Carlyon-Britton Collection (Part I, Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 17 November 1913), lot 289c; Waterloo Bridge find of 1882.