Sale: Triton VI, Lot: 1328. Estimate $4000.  Closing Date: Monday, 13 January 2003.  Sold For $4600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON. Aethelred II. 978-1016. AR Penny (1.46 gm). Thetford mint; Spurling, moneyer. Benediction hand type, circa 991. +ÆDELRED REX ANGLOX, bare head right, holding sceptre surmounted by cross pattée / +SPYRLING M-O DEO, Manus Dei, with two fingers folded, giving the Latin Benediction, extending down from clouds, in which is a cross.SCBI 16, 177 (this coin); North 769; SCBC 1147. Toned, good VF. Very rare type. ($4000) 

From the William J. Conte Collection. Ex Norweb Collection, Part 3 (19 November, 1986), lot 794; R.C. Lockett Collection, Part 3 (Glendining's, 4 November 1958), lot 2770; Raymond Carlyon-Britton Collection, (Sotheby's, 23 November 1916), lot 499. I

In 991 this type was introduced at a few mints, but it was quickly discontinued in favor of the new Crux type.