Triton XX, Lot: 1520. Estimate $3000. Sold for $7500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of Wessex. Ecgberht. 802-839. AR Penny (21mm, 1.28 g, 1h). West Saxon mint (Southampton or Winchester?); Ifa, moneyer. + ECGBEORHT REX, SΛXON in monogram form / + IPΛ MONETΛ, cross pattée. Naismith W8.1d (same obv. die); SCBI 9 (Ashmolean), 232; BMA 398; EMC 2010.0267 = Coin Register 2011, A.158 (this coin); North 589; SCBC 1041 (this coin illustrated). VF, creased and lightly porous. Broad flan. Very rare.

From the Dr. Andrew Wayne Collection, purchased from Mark Rasmussen, 19 August 2010. Found near Basingstoke, Hampshire, July 2010.

Despite greatly increasing the power and wealth of his kingdom, Ecgberht struck very few coins in Wessex.

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