Triton XIX, Lot: 907. Estimate $7500. Sold for $13000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of Wessex. Æthelwulf. 839-858. AR Penny (21mm, 1.21 g, 8h). Portrait / Cross Crosslet type (BMC xi). Canterbury mint. Manna, moneyer. Struck 844-849. + EÐELVLF RE+ (V as inverted A), diademed bust right / + MAHHA MOHETA, cross-crosslet. Naismith C115.3b (this coin); SCBI 2 (Glasgow), 543 (same rev. die); BMA 427 (same obv. die); North 610; SCBC 1047 (this coin illustrated). EF, lightly toned. Very rare and with a wonderful pedigree.

From the Dr. Andrew Wayne Collection, purchased from Spink, 19 December 2006. Ex Bruun Rasmussen 764 (11 December 2006), lot 5426; R. C. Lockett Collection (Part I, Glendining, 6 June 1955), lot 470; L. E. Bruun Collection (Sotheby, 18 May 1925), lot 54; F. McClean [“Astronomer”] Collection (Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 11 June 1906), lot 139; H. Montagu Collection (Part I, Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 18 November 1895), lot 478; W. Brice Collection (purchased en bloc by Montagu, 1887).

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