Triton XIX, Lot: 891. Estimate $2000. Sold for $1700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of East Anglia. Edmund. 855-869. AR Penny (20.5mm, 1.31 g, 9h). Mint in East Anglia (Ipswich?); Beornferth, moneyer. Struck 855-circa 862. + EADMVND REX AN, cross on base with crosses emanating diagonally from sidesB⌓ɭˌnŊ⌓ˌT Ȳɭ / BEORNFERÐ MO, cross pattée; pellets in angles. Naismith E56.1u (this coin); SCBI 4 (Copenhagen), 101–2; BMC 46–7; North 459; SCBC 955. Good VF, mottled tone.

From the Dr. Andrew Wayne Collection. Ex ‘Collection of an Underwriter’ (Classical Numismatic Group 97, 29 September 2014), lot 996, purchased privately from Alex Boggis, May 2009. Found near Basingstoke, Hampshire, 1983.

Edmund, the last king of East-Anglia, was martyred by the Vikings in a most gruesome manner in 869. He was later revered as a saint by the descendants of the very Vikings who had killed him as the St. Edmund memorial coinage (see lot 893 below) attests