Triton XIX, Lot: 883. Estimate $15000. Sold for $35000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of Mercia. Beornwulf. 823-825. AR Penny (19mm, 1.36 g, 9h). Group I. Mint in East Anglia (Ipswich?); Werbald, moneyer. +BEORNPVLF REX, head right / PER BALD mONE in three lines. Naismith E25; EMC 2011.0250 = Coin Register 2013, A.106 (this coin); SCBI 30 (American), 198 (same rev. die); BMC –; North 394; SCBC 928. EF, dark tone. Well struck and extremely rare thus.

From the Dr. Andrew Wayne Collection. Ex Spink (29 March 2012), lot 453. Found Melchbourne, Bedfordshire, October 2011.