Ex Garrett Collection

CNG 111, Lot: 1060. Estimate $2500. Sold for $2750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Archbishops of Canterbury. Ceolnoth. 833-870. AR Penny (21mm, 1.27 g, 12 or 3h). Inscribed Cross type. Canterbury mint; Hebeca, moneyer. Struck circa 854-864. Tonsured and draped facing bust / + HEBE :· CA MO N E T A arranged in limbs of, and around, beaded cross. Naismith C154i = SCBI 30 (North American), 224 = EMC 1030.0224 (this coin); North 245; SCBC 894. EF, toned, minor edge loss. Rare.

From the Ealing Collection. Ex Spink Numismatic Circular CXIII.2 (April 2005), no. HS2000; Triton VII (13 January 2004), lot 1239; John Work Garrett Collection (Part II, Numismatic Fine Arts & Leu, 16 October 1984), lot 772, purchased from St. Louis Coin & Stamp, 21 October 1923.