Triton XX, Lot: 1524. Estimate $2500. Sold for $2400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of Wessex. Æthelwulf. 839-858. AR Penny (20mm, 1.38 g, 6h). Canterbury mint; Hunbeorht, moneyer. Struck 854-858. + ΛEÐELVVLF REX (second L retrograde), diademed bust right / + HVNBEA RHT MO N E T Λ arranged on limbs of, and around, beaded cross. Naismith C144d (this coin); SCBI 9 (Ashmolean), 237 (same rev. die); BMC ; North 618; SCBC 1051. VF, toned. Double struck on reverse. Good metal for issue.

From the Dr. Andrew Wayne Collection. Ex G.S. Hopkins Collection (Baldwin's 30, 7 May 2002), lot 22; Richard Cyril Lockett Collection (Part IV, Glendining, 26 April 1960), lot 3623, purchased from Spink, May 1910; Sir John Evans Collection.