410, Lot: 542. Estimate $750. Sold for $850. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of Wessex. Æthelstan. 924-939. AR Penny (21.5mm, 1.20 g, 9h). Building type (BMC iv). York mint; Regnald, moneyer. + AEDEISTAN R X +, cross pattée / Tower or reliquary above horizontal line; EB-OR/ΛC-Λ [C] in two lines flanking; REGNA[LD]/(triple pellets)MON(triple pellets) in two lines below. Blunt, Aethelstan 438; SCBI 34 (BM), 238 (same dies); North 684; SCBC 1101. VF, lightly toned, chipped with some 20% loss, creased, minor marks. Very rare.

Ex Timeline inventory (March 2002, at £2500).