Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 2237. Estimate $3000.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $5250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON. Kings of Wessex. Edward the Elder. 899-924. AR Penny (1.21 g, 3h). Portrait/two-line (HT 1) type. Late period, phase II, circa 920-924 East Anglia mint; "Heremod", moneyer. EADVVEARD +X, crude diademed bust left / HERE/MOD M in two lines; trefoils above and below, three crosses between. CTCE 28; SCBI 26, 382 (same dies); cf. BMC 84; North 651; SCBC 1084. Good VF, attractive collection toning. Rare. ($3000)

From the Dr. Thomas Dailey Collection.

The East Anglia pennies of Edward, typified by the numerous examples found in the 1958 Morely St. Peter hoard (described in detail in SCBI 26), are the products of an irregular mint established in the lands taken by Edward after 920, when he ousted the Danes from East Anglia. There are extensive die links between the pennies of named moneyers and completely blundered types. Heremod was probably a moneyer at Hereford or Shrewsbury in Mercia.