Cuthred Penny – Ex Norweb

Triton XXII, Lot: 1356. Estimate $4000. Sold for $6000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of Kent. Cuthred. 798-807. AR Penny (17mm, 1.09 g, 12h). Cross-and-wedges type. Canterbury mint; Wærheard, moneyer. Struck 805-807. + CVÐRED REX CANT, diademed bust right / + VER(HE)ARDI MONETA, cross pommée, wedges in angles. Naismith 35.1h = SCBI 16 (Norweb), 82 (this coin); SCBI 67 (BM), 694 (same dies); North 211; SCBC 877. Good VF, toned, minor marks. Bold portrait. Rare.

Ex Alan Williams Collection; Spink Australia 27 (2 March 1989), lot 1238; E. M. Norweb Collection (Part 1, Spink 45, 13 June 1985), lot 17, purchased from Spink, November 1957.