Triton XX, Lot: 1479. Estimate $7500. Sold for $10000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Archbishops of Canterbury. Ceolnoth. 833-870. AR Penny (21mm, 1.21 g, 1h). Group II. Canterbury mint; Beornwulf, moneyer. Struck circa 854-858. + CEOLNOÐ ΛRCHIEP (small bar), tonsured bust facing, extending to edge of flan; pellets flanking neck / + BIARN VLF MO N E T Λ arranged on limbs of, and around, beaded cross. Naismith C151f (this coin); SCBI 4 (Copenhagen), 85; BMC –; North 245; SCBC 894 (this coin illustrated). EF, well struck, richly toned. Excellent metal. Very rare.

From the Dr. Andrew Wayne Collection. Ex Prof. G. W. de Wit Collection (Künker 137, 11 March 2008), lot 3055; Spink Numismatic Circular LXXXIII.6 (June 1975), no. 5482; Richard Cyril Lockett Collection (Part I, Glendining, 6 June 1955), lot 338; P. W. P. Carlyon-Britton Collection (Part II, Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 20 November 1916) lot 898.

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