Triton XIX, Lot: 881. Estimate $4000. Sold for $2500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of Mercia. Coenwulf. 796-821. AR Penny (19mm, 1.22 g). Group III-IV. Portrait type. Mint in East Anglia (Ipswich?); Wihted, moneyer. Struck circa 800-821. + COENVVCC RE, diademed bust right / +: P:IN:T.R:E.D(three pellets) around inner circle containing cross with pellets in angles. Naismith E12.1a = Blunt, Coinage 103 (this coin, illustrated in both); SCBI –; BMC –; North 367; SCBC 919. VF, toned. Very rare.

From the Dr. Andrew Wayne Collection. Ex Baldwin’s 52 (25 September 2007), lot 167; Harris Collection; R. C. Lockett Collection (Part III, Glendining, 4 November 1958), lot 2654 (erroneously citing ex-Cuff); Lord Grantley Collection (Part III, Glendining, 22 March 1944), lot 854; Sir John Evans Collection.