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Ex Mossop Collection – Lincoln Mint Plate Coin

389, Lot: 1178. Estimate $300.
Sold for $660. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of All England. Æthelred II. 978-1016. AR Penny (20mm, 1.41 g, 12h). Last small cross type (BMC i, Hild. A). Lincolne (Lincoln) mint; Wulfgrimr, moneyer. Struck circa 1009-1017. Diademed and draped bust left / + PVLFGRI M–O LINCO, small cross pattée. Mossop pl. XXX, 16 (dies A/b; this coin); SCBI 7 (Copenhagen), 626–9; North 777; SCBC 1154. VF, toned, a couple peck marks.


From the J. Eric Engstrom Collection, purchased from C. Subak, 13 May 1989. Ex Henry Richard Mossop Collection.