Triton XX, Lot: 1530. Estimate $1500. Sold for $1500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of Wessex. Edward the Elder. 899-924. AR Penny (22mm, 1.66 g, 6h). Circumscription Cross/Horizontal-Pellet (HP1) type (BMC ii). Wessex dies; Æthelstan, moneyer. Middle period, circa 910-915. + EADVVEARD REX, small cross pattée / ÆÐELS/TAM M–O in two lines; three crosses pattée between, pellet above and below. CTCE 56.iv = SCBI 20 (Mack), 738 = Vatican Hoard 59 (this coin); BMC 4; North 649; SCBC 1087. EF, lightly toned.

From the Dr. Patrick H. C. Tan Collection. Ex R. P. Mack Collection (Part II, Glendining’s, 23 March 1977), lot 84; V. J. E Ryan Collection (Part II, Glendining’s, 22 January 1952), lot 731 (part of); Glendining’s (16 May 1929), lot 49 (part of); 1928 Vatican Hoard.