365, Lot: 509. Estimate $750. Sold for $650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of Wessex. Edward the Elder. 899-924. AR Penny (23mm, 1.60 g, 6h). Circumscription cross/Horizontal-Quatrefoil (HQ1) type (BMC ii). Mercia South-East dies; Wigheard, moneyer. Late Period II, circa 920-924. + EΛDVVEΛRD REX, small cross pattée / VVIΛ/ERD M–O in two lines; three cross between, quatrefoils above and below. CTCE 290; SCBI –; BMC –; North 649; SCBC 1087. Good VF, toned. Struck on a broad flan.