Triton XIX, Lot: 888. Estimate $2500. Sold for $2650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of East Anglia. Æthelstan I. Circa 827-845. AR Penny (21mm, 1.29 g, 3h). Non-portrait type. Mint in East Anglia (Ipswich?); Eadnoth, moneyer. Struck circa 830-837/8. + EPELSTANI (S retrograde and horizontal), large barred A / + EADNOD MO, cross pattée, pellets in angles. Naismith E36.2c (this coin); SCBI 30 (American), 229 (same dies); cf. BMC 9; North 440; SCBC 950 (this coin illustrated). Near EF, mottled tone. Rare.

From the Dr. Andrew Wayne Collection. Ex Marshall Collection (Spink 167, 31 March 2004), lot 35; Spink Numismatic Circular L1.7 (January 1943), no. 17762; P.W.P. Carlyon-Britton Collection (Part II, Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 20 November 1916), lot 902.

The Standard Catalogue of British Coins (50th edition) plate coin.