Very Rare St. Edmund Halfpenny

CNG 99, Lot: 1209. Estimate $5000. Sold for $6500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Anglo-Viking (Danish East Anglia). St. Edmund memorial coinage. Circa 895-918. AR Halfpenny (14mm, 0.52 g, 9h). Mint in East Anglia (Gipeswic [Ipswich]?); Otibuini, moneyer. + (horizontal S)C EΛ·DIYI:·DI, large Λ / + O–IBVI·NE, small cross pattée. SCBI 4 (Copenhagen), 164 (same dies); BMC –; North 485; SCBC 962. EF, toned. Superbly pedigreed. Very rare.

Ex A.W. Morrison Collection; Lord Grantley Collection (Part III, Glendining, 22 March 1944, lot 932; John Gloag Murdoch Collection (Part I, Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 11 May 1903), lot 48; Hyram Montagu Collection (Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 18 November 1895), lot 371 (purchased by Spink); R. Marsham-Townsend (Sotheby, Wilkinson, & Hodge, 19 November 1888), lot 109; possibly ex 1840 Cuerdale Hoard.