Ex Vatican Hoard

CNG 109, Lot: 877. Estimate $7500. Sold for $8500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of Wessex. Edward the Elder. 899-924. AR Penny (22.5mm, 1.19 g, 12h). Bust Diademed (BD) type (BMC iii). East Anglian imtiation; “Heremod”, moneyer. Late period, phase II, circa 920-924. + EADVVEARD E+, diademed bust left / HERCO/MED II in two lines; three crosses between, trefoil above and below. Vatican Hoard 438 (this coin); CTCE p. 85; SCBI 26 (East Anglia), 398 var. (rev. legend; same obv. die); North 651; SCBC 1084. EF, richly toned, minute striking perforation by rim. Excellent portrait. Rare.

Ex Baldwin’s 80 (8 May 2013), lot 2181; V. J. E. Ryan Collection (Part II, Glendining, 22 January 1952), lot 737; Glendining (13 November 1930), lot 44; 1928 Vatican Hoard.

The East Anglia pennies of Edward, typified by the numerous examples found in the 1958 Morely St. Peter hoard (described in detail in SCBI 26), are the products of an irregular mint established in the lands taken by Edward after 920, when he ousted the Danes from East Anglia. There are extensive die links between the pennies of named moneyers and completely blundered types. Heremod was probably a moneyer at Hereford or Shrewsbury in Mercia.