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434, Lot: 572. Estimate $300.
Sold for $800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of All England. Edward the Martyr. 975-978. AR Penny (20.5mm, 1.44 g, 10h). Sole type (BMC i). York mint; Ælfstan, moneyer. + EΛDPEΛRD REX ΛI, diademed bust left / + ÆLFSTΛN (crescent) M–O EFR, small cross pattée. EMC 2007.0134 (this coin); SCBI 29 (Merseyside), 514 var. (rev. legend); Hild. –; BMC –; North 763; SCBC 1142. Fair, a little wavy, many marks. Very rare moneyer for mint, only three recorded in SCBI, this coin is the only additional recorded in the EMC, one in CoinArchives (Spink 234 [Stewartby I], lot 215, which hammered at £4800).


From the Londinium Collection. Found near Poklington, Yorkshire, by 2007.