Ex Drabble Collection

Triton XVIII, Lot: 1707. Estimate $2000. Sold for $3500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Anglo-Viking (Danish Northumbria). Imitations of Alfred the Great. Circa 885-915. AR Penny (20.5mm, 1.40 g, 9h). Beornweald, moneyer. ΛCΓCP + P·E+ D–ORO, small cross pattée / B(NR)IV/ ΛD MO in two lines with pellets between (ornamented O). SCBI 4 (Copenhagen), 91 corr. (attribution); cf. BMC 63 (Plegmund); North 475/1; SCBC 966. EF, toned. Very rare.

From the Joseph R Lasser Collection for the benefit of The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. Ex Elsen 104 (13 March 2010), lot 337; Bruun Rasmussen (11 December 2006), lot 5418; G. C. Drabble Collection (Glendining, 4 July 1939), lot 356.