CNG 99, Lot: 1213. Estimate $1000. Sold for $800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of Wessex. Æthelstan. 924-939. AR Penny (22mm, 1.62 g, 4h). Small cross/Horizontal-Trefoil 1 (HT 1) type (BMC i). North Eastern I mint; Nother/Nothhere, moneyer. ÆÐEL•STAN RE+, small cross pattée / NOÐE MONE in two lines; ++–+ between, trefoils above and below. Blunt, Aethelstan 396; Forum Hoard 144; SCBI 34 (BM), 226 var. (no dash among trefoils); SCBI 30 (American), 344 var. (same); cf. CNG 91, lot 1456 (spelling of moneyer); North 668; SCBC 1089. Good VF, areas of flat strike. Extremely rare moneyer, approximately eight examples known, all but two in public collections (Berlin, London, New York, and Rome; cf. M. Dolley, “A group of tenth century coins found at Mont-Saint-Michel,” BNJ 49 [1971], p. 5).

Beyond this issue of Æthelstan, the York moneyer Nother/Nothhere is only known on a unique coin in the name of the Norse king Anlaf Sihtricsson struck after his retaking of the city in 941 (Forum Hoard 385 = M. Dolley, op. cit., p. 4, c), and the later portrait issue of Eadmund (cf. CTCE p. 197, 268). At the same time, there is a portrait coin of Eadred with a moneyer Nother, but with an enigmatic mint signature BI, which may indicate Bedford (cf. CTCE 260 [incorrectly listing the coin under Eadmund, although the illustration of the coin on plate 23 clearly shows the obverse reading Eadgar]). Whether this is the same moneyer, moved to another mint, though, is uncertain.