Ex Lockett and Carlyon-Britton Collections

485361.

Sold For $1850

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of Mercia. Burgred. 852-874. AR Penny (19.5mm, 1.26 g, 12h). Phase IIb. Coenred, moneyer. Struck 866-868/70. + BVRGRED REX, diademed and draped bust right / MON ETA in pelleted topless lunettes above and below + CENRED. MacKay H7.4 (dies O4/R4) = N. Heywood, ‘The Kingdom and Coins of Burgred,’ in BNJ III (1906), p. facing 59, 1 (this coin); SCBI 9 (Ashmolean), 35; BMC 183-4; North 426; SCBC 941B. EF, toned.

From the WRG Collection, purchased from C.H. Wolfe, July 1989. Ex Richard Cyril Lockett Collection (English – Part IV, Glendining’s, 26 April 1960), lot 3600 (part of); P.W.P. Carlyon-Britton Collection (not in Sotheby’s sales, but cited as such by Heywood p. 66); 1884 London Waterloo Bridge Hoard (IBCH 256).