435, Lot: 577. Estimate $200. Sold for $450. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of Wessex. Edward the Elder. 899-924. AR Penny (21.5mm, 1.55 g, 2h). Circumscription cross/Horizontal-Trefoil 1 (HT 1) type (BMC ii). Wessex dies; Deorweald, moneyer. Late period I, circa 915-920. Small cross pattée / in two lines; three crosses pattée between, trefoils above and below. Naismith, Forum 79 (same dies); CTCE 146i; SCBI 26 (East Anglia), –; North 649; SCBC 1087. Fine, toned, slightly wavy, areas of weak strike.

From the Londinium Collection.