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EANVV REX around central small cross pattée / OSBREHT REX (partially retrograde) around central beaded motif. SCBI 69 (Abramson), 1013; North 191; SCBC 869. 1.13gr, 12mm, 5h.

Very Fine.

From the private collection of John Meredith, acquired since the 1990s; thence by descent.

✠ AEDILRED Rx(ligate) around central small cross pattée / ✠ AL·GHERE around central small cross pattée. Pirie 3.16a-b; North 188; SCBC 865. 0.74gr, 13mm, 7h.

Good Very Fine. Edge chipped.

From the private collection of John Meredith, acquired since the 1990s; thence by descent.

✠ AE∂ELRE∂ REX around geometric 'swastika' design / ✠ LEOF∂EςN around central pellet. SCBI 69, 981; North 188 (vol.I, pl.II, 26); SCBC 866A. 0.96gr, 14mm, 3h.

Very Fine. Very rare.

From the private collection of John Meredith, acquired since the 1990s; thence by descent.

✠ EANRED REX around central small cross / DAEςBERCT around central small cross. Pirie, Guide 3.6a; North 186; SCBC 860. 1.18gr, 13mm, 12h.

Good Very Fine.

From the private collection of John Meredith, acquired since the 1990s; thence by descent.

Legend around central motif / Legend around central small cross pattée. Cf. SCBC 872. 0.88gr, 14mm, 2h.

Near Very Fine.

Found UK. Property of a North Yorkshire, UK, gentleman.

+ ΕΛRDVVLF around central small cross pattée with pellet in angles / + EDILRED REX around pellet within beaded circle. North 190; SCBC 868. 0.86gr, 12mm, 12h.

Good Very Fine.

From the private collection of John Meredith, acquired since the 1990s; thence by descent.

✠ VIGMVND IR ⁝ (partially retrograde) around central beaded motif / ✠ HVNLAF around central small cross pattée. North 196; SCBC 870. 1.11gr, 13mm, 3h.

Good Fine.

From the private collection of John Meredith, acquired since the 1990s; thence by descent.

+ COENRED around pelleted cross / + VIGMVND IREP' around central small cross pattée. North 196; SCBC 870. 1.21gr, 13mm, 4h.

Extremely Fine.

From the private collection of John Meredith, acquired since the 1990s; thence by descent.

+ EARDVVLF around four pellets within circle / + EDILRED REX around small cross within circle. North 190; SCBC 868. 0.92gr, 13mm, 4h.

Good Very Fine. Edge chipped.

From the private collection of John Meredith, acquired since the 1990s; thence by descent.

✠ EANRED REX around central small cross pattée within circle / ✠ HERRED • around central cross. Pirie 100; North 186; SCBC 860. 0.98gr, 13mm, 12h.

Extremely Fine.

From the private collection of John Meredith, acquired since the 1990s; thence by descent.

+ EDILVEΛRD around central small cross / + VIGMVND AREP (retrograde) around central small cross. North 196; SCBC 870. 1.13gr, 13mm, 9h.

Good Very Fine.

From the private collection of John Meredith, acquired since the 1990s; thence by descent.

Hollow cross with incurved sides and lozenge ends with quadruple pellets within and O FF AR EX in angles / Hollow lozenge with fleurs at cusps and cross within with +P IH TR E in angles. SCBC 907; North 336; British Museum Portable Antiquities Scheme, reference SF-87E18C (this coin); Early Medieval Corpus, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, reference EMC 2020.0196. 1.18gr, 18mm, 3h.

Near Extremely Fine. A new type for the moneyer and thus unique.

Found near Lower Hatcheston, Suffolk, UK, April 2020. Accompanied by copies of the British Museum Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS), reference SE-87E18C and Early Medieval Corpus, reference 2020.0196 records.

The EMC record includes the comment 'A new type for the East Anglian moneyer Wihtred, cf. Chick 183'; although this coin shares some features and details with other coins of this moneyer and of others, these dies are distinctly different from any others previously recorded.