Triton XX, Lot: 1503. Estimate $2500. Sold for $2750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of East Anglia. Æthelstan I. Circa 827-845. AR Penny (20mm, 1.37 g, 12h). Non-portrait type, early phase. Mint in East Anglia (Ipswich?); Monna, moneyer. Struck circa 830-837/8. EDEL·STAN I (S retrograde and horizontal), large barred A, pellets flanking / mOHH mOHET ·A·, cross pattée, pellets in angles. Naismith E38.2a = SCBI 16 (Norweb), 108 (this coin); BMC 12; North 440; SCBC 950. Good VF, toned. Very rare.

From the Dr. Andrew Wayne Collection, purchased from Spink, 9 February 2007. Ex E. M. Norweb Collection (Part 1, Spink 45, 13 June 1985), lot 31; V. J. E. Ryan Collection (Part II, Glendining’s, 22 January 1952), lot 652.