Triton XX, Lot: 1494. Estimate $15000. Sold for $16000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of Mercia. Ceolwulf I. 821-823. AR Penny (19.5mm, 1.37 g, 6h). Portrait type. Mint in East Anglia (Ipswich?); Herebeorht, moneyer. + CEOLVVF REX (barred Mercian M), diademed and draped bust right / HER EBE+ RHT in three lines (the 3rd inverted), divided by two lines with hooked finials. Naismith E17j = EMC 2003.0151 (same dies); SCBI 1 (Fitzwilliam), 404 var. (2nd line retrograde); BMC 108 var. (same); North 392; SCBC 927 (this coin illustrated). EF, attractively toned. Very rare, especially in such excellent preservation.

From the Dr. Andrew Wayne Collection. Ex ‘Charles’ Collection (Dix, Noonan, Webb 93, 26 September 2011), lot 1005, purchased from Seaby, 1981.

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