Sale: CNG 63, Lot: 1938. Estimate $4000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 21 May 2003.  Sold For $4500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON. Eadgar. 959-975. AR Penny (1.74 gm). Reform coinage, circa 972/3-975. York mint; Dun, moneyer. +EADGAR REX ANG-, diademed bust left / +DVN: M-O EFERPIC\, small cross pattée. SCBI 30, 396 (this coin); North 752; SCBC 1141. Toned, good VF. Very rare. ($4000)

Ex Stack's (4 May 1995), lot 2210. 

Eadgar became King of all England when his brother died in 959, but his coronation did not take place until 973 when he was crowned at a church in Bath which is still standing today. He reformed the coinage, also in 973, by making the obverse portrait and reverse mint name and moneyer a standard feature.