Sale: Triton VII, Lot: 1247. Estimate $5000.  Closing Date: Monday, 12 January 2004.  Sold For $9000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON. Kings of Wessex. Alfred the Great. 871-899. AR Penny (1.55 gm). Third coinage, struck circa 880. London mint. ÆLF RED RE X (X in right field), diademed bust right / Londonia monogram; cross of wedges above, cross of four pellets. SCBI 30, 303 (this coin); BMC 94; North 644; SCBC 1061. EF, sharp strike with superb old collection toning. [See color enlargement on plate 23] ($5000)

Ex John W. Garrett Collection (Numismatic Fine Arts & Leu, 16-18 October 1984), lot 746; purchased from Wayte Raymond, 12 October 1922 (includes collection ticket).