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+ 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.

✠ COENVVLF : REX m, diademed bust to right / + EALஃͶZTAH mOHT, cross pommée with wedges in each angle within inner circle. North 355/cn76; SCBC 917. 1.22gr, 20mm, 10h.

Very Fine. Beautiful iridescent toning.

Found in Breckland, Norfolk, UK, on Friday 22nd December 2023. Accompanied by a copy of the British Museum's Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) report no.NMS-F6E4AE. Recorded by the Corpus of Early Medieval Coin Finds of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridgeshire, with reference no. EMC 2023.0536.

BVRG[...], diademed bust to right / [...]RED [MO]N-[ET]A in three lines. North 423; SCBC 938. 0.50gr, 18mm, 12h.

Extremely Fine. Cut.

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

✠ SC [...] R, large A / [...]NIER [...], short cross pattée. North 483; SCBC 960. 0.64gr, 14mm, 12h.

Very Fine. Edge chipped.

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

✠ SC EADMIIDPE (retrograde), large A between pellets / ✠ [?] OIYIICNIYION (retrograde), cross pattée. Cf. SCBC 960. 1.36gr, 19mm, 3h.

Very Fine.

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

✠ [...]VCAI, large A / ✠[...]ACVI, small cross pattée. North 483; SCBC 961. 0.85gr, 17mm, 6h.

Very Fine. Edge chipped.

From the private collection of a Sussex, UK, gentleman.

✠ EADVVEARD REX, small cross / BEAHS-TAN MO in two lines, ✠ above, three pellets below, ✠✠✠ between. CTCE 85; SCBI 26, 134; BMC 17; North 649; SCBC 1087. 1.47gr, 20mm, 8h.

Very Fine. Edge chipped.

From the private collection of a Sussex, UK, gentleman.

+ ÆÐELRÆD REX ANGLOR, bust to left with sceptre / Short voided cross with C R V X in angles and + LIFINC M O CÆNT around. SCBC 1148; North 770. 1.45gr, 19mm, 3h.

Near Extremely Fine. Few Viking peck marks to both sides.

Ex Baldwin's with reference no.C201015484 and B M Coins. Property of a UK collector. Accompanied by a Baldwin's coin ticket.

✠ ÆÐELR[...], draped bust to left / ✠ OS-MVN-[...], voided long cross. North 774; SCBC 1151. 0.65gr, 20mm, 11h.

Near Very Fine.

Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman.