435, Lot: 578. Estimate $150. Sold for $162. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of Wessex. Æthelstan. 924-939. AR Penny (22mm, 1.08 g, 12h). Contemporary imitation of the Circumscription Cross type (BMC v). “London” mint; “Ele,” moneyer. Small cross pattée / + EΓE MOИTΛ LVND CIVITT, small cross pattée. Blunt, Aethelstan 461 (same dies); SCBI 9 (Ashmolean), 325; cf. North 672; cf. SCBC 1093. Fine, some roughness, neatly broken in half.

From the Londinium Collection, purchased from York Coins.