Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 1756. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $2900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON. Kings of Wessex. Ecgberht. 802-839. AR Penny (1.34 gm, 9h). Struck circa 828-839. Rochester mint; Beagmund, moneyer. +ECGBEORHT REX, cross potent with pellets in quarters / +BEAGMVND MONETA, cross potent with pellets in quarters. Blunt, Coinage, Group 4, pg. 470, 10-15; SCBI -; BMC -; North 580a; SCBC 1038. VF, flan cracks. Very rare. ($1500)