Ex Lockett and Roth Collections

CNG 112, Lot: 806. Estimate $2000. Sold for $6500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of Wessex. Æthelberht. 858-865/6. AR Penny (21mm, 1.44 g, 10h). Inscribed Cross type (BMC i). Canterbury mint; Oshere, moneyer. Struck circa 858-864. + ΛEÐELBEΛR(HT) REX, draped bust right / + OSHE RE mO N E T Λ in and around arms of beaded cross. Naismith 198g (this coin); SCBI 67 (BM), 1282; North 620; SCBC 1053. Toned, light porosity, small flaw on obverse. VF.

Ex Christie’s (22 June 1982), lot 294; Spink Numismatic Circular LXXX.6 (June 1972), no. 6328; Richard Cyrill Lockett Collection (English Part I, 6 June 1955), lot 478 (part of); Bernard Roth Collection (Part I, Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 19 July 1917), lot 62.