Triton XX, Lot: 1480. Estimate $4000. Sold for $4250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Archbishops of Canterbury. Plegmund. 890-914. AR Penny (22.5mm, 1.48 g, 5h). Group II. Circumscription cross/Horizontal-Trefoil 1 (HT 1) type. Canterbury mint; Beorhrthelm, moneyer. Struck circa 905-914/23. + PLEGMVND ΛRCIEP, small cross pattée / BERHT/ELM MO in two lines; three crosses pattée between, trefoils above and below. CTCE P.4(a) = Vatican Hoard 7 (this coin, illustrated in CTCE); SCBI –; BMC –; North 256; SCBC 900 (this coin illustrated). Near EF, toned, trace of red deposit on obverse. Very rare.

From the Dr. Andrew Wayne Collection. Ex Baldwin’s 83 (24 September 2013), lot 4276; Glendining’s (5 October 1987), lot 395; Richard Cyril Lockett Collection (Glendining, 4 November 1958), lot 2640; Vatican Hoard, Rome (Second portion, Glendining’s, 13 November 1930), lot 1. Lot includes a B. A. Seaby ticket, priced £30, and noting “Dr. Parker Coll.”.

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