CNG 99, Lot: 1212. Estimate $1500. Sold for $900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of Wessex. Edward the Elder. 899-924. AR Penny (22.5mm, 1.48 g, 6h). Circumscription cross/Horizontal-Quatrefoil (HQ1) type (BMC ii). Mercia South-east dies; Eadmund, moneyer. Late period II, circa 920-924. + EΛDVVEΛRD REX, small cross pattée / EΛDM VND M–O in two lines; +++ between, quatrefoils above and below. CTCE 165 = SCBI 64 (Grosvenor), 55 var. (no trefoil); BMC –; North 649; SCBC 1087. EF, light ghosting.