Triton XIX, Lot: 901. Estimate $15000. Sold for $27500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Anglo-Viking (Hiberno-Norse Northumbria). Anlaf Guthfrithsson. 939-941. AR Penny (21mm, 1.41 g, 7h). Flower type. York mint; Ingelgar, moneyer. +ANLAF REX EFOR, small cross pattée; tiny pellet and crescent below flanking inner ring / INGELGAR below line from which springs a flower with two curved stalks, star below. CTCE Group X, a-c; SCBI 6 (Edinburgh), 74 var. (obv. legend); SCBI 34 (BM), 1276 var. (same); North 539; SCBC 1017. VF, a full coin and lightly toned. Extremely rare; the first example to ever be offered at public auction.

From the Dr. Andrew Wayne Collection.

This remarkable coin was struck at York by the well attested northeastern moneyer Ingelgar for Anlaf Guthfrithsson. The type is closely related in both style and artistic accomplishment to the popular and very rare floral issue of Edward the Elder (SCBC 1078) struck by Heremod at the northwestern mint of Chester