Triton XX, Lot: 1476. Estimate $3000. Sold for $2750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Archbishops of Canterbury. Æthelheard. 793-805. AR Penny (19mm, 1.36 g, 3h). Fourth issue, Coenwulf as overlord. Canterbury mint. Struck circa 797/8-805. ΛED IL·H EΛR D ΛR around pelleted circle, with cruciform arms, containing barred EP / + CE ENV LF RE X/(barred Mercian m) V · in two lines around the angles of a two-lined tribrach moline. Cf. Naismith C22.3 (for rev. type); SCBI –; BMC –; cf. North 233 (for rev. type); SCBC 886 (this coin illustrated). VF, small edge split. The only known example with this obverse type.

From the Dr. Andrew Wayne Collection. Ex Spink 211 (13 December 2011), lot 7.

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