Triton XX, Lot: 1490. Estimate $4000. Sold for $6500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of Mercia. Coenwulf. 796-821. AR Penny (18mm, 1.34 g, 1h). Group I. Tribrach type. Canterbury mint; Eoba, moneyer. Struck circa 797/8-805. + COENVVL·F REX around barred Mercian m in beaded inner circle / +E OB A in the angles of three-lined tribrach moline, inner line pelleted. Naismith C14.1h (this coin); SCBI 2 (Hunterian), 330; BMC 96; North 342; SCBC 914 (this coin illustrated). Near EF, toned. A rare and attractive coin with an impressive pedigree.

From the Dr. Andrew Wayne Collection. Ex Spink 211 (13 December 2011), lot 13; Prof. G. W. de Wit Collection (Künker 137, 11 March 2008), lot 3038; Spink Numismatic Circular CVII.10 (December 1999), no. 5045; Lawrence R. Stack Collection (Sotheby’s, 22 April 1999), lot 301; Glendining (27 May 1987), lot 358; Richard Cyril Lockett Collection (Part IV, Glendining’s, 26 April 1960), lot 3590; G. J. Bascom Collection (Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 15 June 1914), lot 5; Collection of an 'Astronomer' (Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 11 June 1906), lot 98; H. Montagu Collection (Part I, Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 18 November 1895), lot 252; S. Addington Collection (bt. by Montagu); B. Bergne Collection (Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 20 May 1873), lot 68; Rev. W. F. Dymock Colleciton (Sotheby & Wilkinson, 1 June 1858), lot 61; J. D. Cuff Collection (Sotheby & Wilkinson, 8 June 1854), lot 282.

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