Sale: CNG 63, Lot: 1931. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 21 May 2003.  Sold For $850. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

VIKING ENGLAND. Danish East Anglia. Imitating Alfred. Circa 885-915. AR Halfpenny (0.50 gm). Two-line type. Imitating Cuthbeart or Ethered(?), moneyer. EL FR ED R, cross / ADE/ THRI, (retrograde) inscription in two lines. Grierson, "Halfpennies and Third-pennies of King Alfred," BNJ XXVIII, 39 (this coin); cf. North 475 (Penny); SCBC 970. VF, deep old scratch on reverse. Very rare. ($1000)

Ex Baldwin's 1957; Lockett Collection, part I (Glendining's, 6 June 1955), lot 496; G. C. Drabble Collection, part I (Glendining's, 4 July 1939), lot 390; Carlyon-Britton Collection, part III (Sotheby's, 11 November 1918), lot 1656; Stamford Hoard 1902.