Triton XIX, Lot: 925. Estimate $4000. Sold for $6000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of Wessex. Eadwig. 955-959. AR Penny (21mm, 1.54 g, 9h). Horizontal-Trefoil 3 (HT 3) type (BMC ii). Winchester mint; Otic, moneyer. + EADVVIG REX, small cross pattée / OTIC/MONE· in two lines; PI N within three crosses pattée between, trefoils above and below. Harvey 32b (dies A/a – this coin); CTCE 98; SCBI –; North 727; SCBC 1123 (this coin illustrated). Near EF, attractively toned. Very rare mint-signed Eadwig.

From the Dr. Andrew Wayne Collection. Ex J.A. Hall Collection (Dix Noonan Webb 71, 28 September 2006), lot 44; L. R. Stack Collection (Sotheby, 22-23 April, 1999), lot 481; F. Knobloch Collection (Coin Galleries, 12 November 1986), lot 1008.

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