Sale: Triton VI, Lot: 1320. Estimate $6000.  Closing Date: Monday, 13 January 2003.  Sold For $5000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON. Edward "the Martyr". 975-978. AR Penny (1.37 gm). Bedford mint. Aethelstan, moneyer. +EDPEARD REX AN(retrograde)GL•, diademed bust left / +ÆLFZ(retrograde)TAN M-O BEDA, small cross. North 763; SCBC 1142. Toned, choice EF. Extremely rare. (See color enlargement on plate 23.) ($6000) 

From the William J. Conte Collection. Ex Linzalone Collection (Stack's, 7 December 1994), lot 2368; Ridgemount Collection (Spink 69, April 1989), lot 71; Duke of Argyll Collection; Wheeler Collection, lot 43; Thomas Bliss Collection (Sotheby's, 22-24 March 1916), lot 106; Archdeacon Pownall Collection, lot 49; Bagshawe Collection; Hyman Montague Collection (Sotheby's, 18 November 1895), lot 749.