Triton XIX, Lot: 914. Estimate $20000. Sold for $35000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of Wessex. Edward the Elder. 899-924. AR Penny (21mm, 1.55 g, 9h). Floral type (BMC ix). North Western mint (probably Chester); Boga, moneyer. Middle Period, circa 910-915. + EADVVEARD REX, small cross pattée / BV GA enclosed within branches of floral design. CTCE 327d (this coin); SCBI 20 (Mack), 759 (same dies); BMC 100; North 660; SCBC 1079 (this coin illustrated). EF, deep rich old tone. A wonderful example of this superbly artistic coin, with a magnificent provenance -plated in the famous Montagu sale of 1895. Extremely rare.

From the Dr. Andrew Wayne Collection. Ex Millennia Collection (Goldberg 46, 28 May 2008), lot 215; Dr. J.Y. Terner Collection; The Marshall Collection, (Spink 167, 31 March 2004), lot 45; Spink Numismatic Circular XLVIII.5 (July 1942), no 15395; G.C. Drabble Collection (Glendining, 4 July 1939), lot 402; L.E. Bruun Collection (Sotheby, 18 May 1925), lot 78; F. McClean [“Astronomer”] Collection (Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge 11 June 1906), lot 163; H. Montagu Collection (Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 8 November 1895), lot 592.

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