Triton XIX, Lot: 860. Estimate $7500. Sold for $9000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Archbishops of Canterbury. Wulfred. 805-832. AR Penny (20mm, 1.41 g, 9h). Group III. Canterbury mint; Swefheard, moneyer. Struck circa 810-822/3. + VVLFRED ARCHIEPI, tonsured bust facing, bust extends to edge of coin / + SVVEFHERD mO(NE)TA, Dorobernia Civitas monogram. Naismith C47.2r = EMC 1999.0020 (this coin); SCBI –; BMC –; North 240/1; SCBC 889. Near EF, toned. Unusually well struck, very rare in this conditon.

From the Dr. Andrew Wayne Collection. Ex “Collection of Coins of the Canterbury mint” (Spink 211, 13 December 2011) lot 9; Chris Rudd FPL 42 (1999), no. 53; Baldwin’s 18 (12 October 1998), lot 1632. Found Waldershare Park, near Dover, Kent, March 1998.