ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of Wessex. Æthelwulf. 839-858. AR Penny (20mm, 1.24 g, 6h). First Portrait type. Canterbury mint; Dægheah, moneyer. Struck circa 844-849.

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ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of Wessex. Æthelwulf. 839-858. AR Penny (20mm, 1.24 g, 6h). First Portrait type. Canterbury mint; Dægheah, moneyer. Struck circa 844-849. Diademed bust right / + DEINEΛN MO(NE)T, cross-crosslet. Naismith C107.2h = SCBI 20 (Mack), 710 (this coin); North 610; SCBC 1047. Toned. VF.

Ex Stack’s & Bowers Galleries (11 January 2019), lot 40280; R.P. Mack (Part I, Glendining’s, 18 November 1975), lot 106. Probably ex Spink Numismatic Circular LXIII.3 (March 1955), no. 13383; Spink Numismatic Circular LVIII.8-9 (August-September 1950), no. 28702; R. Carlyon Britton Collection.


Closing Date and Time: 27 January 2021 at 16:36:20 ET.

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