Attractive Wessex Lunettes Penny

5686076.

SOLD $12500

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of Wessex. Alfred the Great. 871-899. AR Penny (19mm, 1.13 g, 5h). Lunettes type (BMC i). Canterbury mint; Sæferth, moneyer. Struck 871-circa 875. + AELBRED: REX, small diademed bust right breaking inner circle / SEFRED across central field; .MON. ·ETΛ:· in lunettes above and below. Lyons & Mackay, Lunettes, Group 1, Dies B/b, AfL1.104 (this coin); cf. SCBI 42 (South-Eastern), 742; cf. BMC 166; North 625; SCBC 1057. Well struck with a dark matte tone. Near EF. Very rare.

Ex A. Wayne (Triton XIX, 5 January 2016), lot 910; L.M. LaRiviere (Spink 160, 10 October 2002), lot 996; J. Linzalone Collection (Stack’s, 7 December 1994), lot 2351.