434, Lot: 563. Estimate $200. Sold for $800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of East Anglia. Eadwald. Circa 796-800. AR Penny (19.5mm, 1.20 g, 2h). Mint in East Anglia (Ipswich?); Botred, moneyer. Struck 796-circa 798. ЄΛ+D/+ΠΠA[ΓD]/REX separated by bars with central hooks / B◊ TR ED, divided by pellets and linear ornaments, around small cross pattée. Naismith E1.1b = EMC 2007.0223 (this coin); North –; SCBC 947. VF, edge loss, flan cracks. Extremely rare, one of two known.

From the Londinium Collection.