435, Lot: 579. Estimate $100. Sold for $75. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of Wessex. Æthelstan. 924-939. AR Penny (23mm, 1.08 g, 9h). Contemporary imitation of the Circumscription Cross type (BMC v). “Wareham” mint; “Wulfsige,” moneyer. Small cross pattée / + VVLИIG[E MO VVEHR]EtI, small cross pattée. EMC 2008.0299 (
this coin); Blunt,
Aethelstan 465 (same dies); SCBI 4 (Copenhagen), 705; cf. North 672; cf. SCBC 1093. VF, toned, fragment.
From the Londinium Collection. Found ‘North Yorkshire,’ 2008.