432, Lot: 529. Estimate $500. Sold for $1000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of Wessex. Edward the Elder. 899-924. AR Penny (22.5mm, 1.56 g, 12h). Bust Diademed (BD) type (BMC iii). London mint; Eahlstan, moneyer. Late period, phase I, circa 915-920. Diademed bust left / EALHS/TAN M–O in two lines; three crosses between, cross between two trefoils above and below. CTCE 18 = BMC 78 (same rev. die); SCBI –; EMC 2014.0034 (same dies); North 651; SCBC 1084. Fine, slightly ragged flan, struck from rusty dies.