424, Lot: 672. Estimate $150. Sold for $240. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of Northumbria. Æthelred II. First or second reign, 841-843/4 and 843/4-849/50. Æ Styca (12mm, 1.14 g, 3h). York mint; Leofdegn, moneyer. + AEdELRED REX REX around central cross potent with dashes in quarters / + LEOFdEGИ around central pelleted annulet within double annulet. Pirie, Guide –; North 188; SCBC 865. Good VF, brown patina.

From the M. Lessen Collection. Ex Spink Numismatic Circular LXXVIII.10 (October 1970), no. 11203.