Triton XX, Lot: 1521. Estimate $5000. Sold for $4250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of Wessex. Æthelwulf. 839-858. AR Penny (20.5mm, 1.26 g, 6h). Rochester mint; Dunn, moneyer. Struck 839-844. EDELVVLF REX, diademed bust right / + DVN mONETA, cross pattée. Naismith C20.1 a = SCBI 16 (Norweb), 134 (this coin); BMA 422 (same dies); North 594; SCBC 1043 corr. (Canterbury and Rochester). Good VF, toned. A very rare issue at Rochester.

From the Dr. Andrew Wayne Collection. Ex Spink 207 (23 March 2011), lot 23; E. M. Norweb Collection (Part 1, Spink 45, 13 June 1985), lot 44, purchased from A.H. Baldwin, June 1963; V. J. E. Ryan Collection (Part II, Glendining’s, 22 January 1952), lot 697; 1893 Middle Temple Hoard (IBCH 366).