Triton XX, Lot: 1495. Estimate $10000. Sold for $15000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of Mercia. Beornwulf. 823-825. AR Penny (20mm, 1.41 g, 9h). Group II. Mint in East Anglia (Ipswich?); Monna, moneyer. +BEORHPVLF REX, head right / + m O H H A (triple pellets between), cross crosslet. Naismith E24h = SCBI 20 (Mack), 597 (this coin); BMC –; North 397; SCBC 929. Good VF, small die flaw on reverse, deep old tone. Very rare.

From the Dr. Andrew Wayne Collection. Ex Baldwin’s 80 (8 May 2013), lot 2166; Spink Numismatic Circular XCIII.4 (May 1985), no. 3024; R. P. Mack Collection, 597; Richard Cyril Lockett Collection (Part I, Glendining, 6 June 1955), lot 388; Prof. A. S. Napier Collection (Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 3 August 1916), lot 8; H. M. Reynolds Collection (Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 4 May 1914), lot 12; E. W. Rashleigh Collection (Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 21 June 1909), lot 56.