LOT 3827
Anglo-Saxon. Anglo-Viking (Danish East Anglia), "St Edmund Memorial" Coinage AR Penny. Circa 885-918. Mint in East Anglia (Ipswich?); Wineger, moneyer.
✠ SC [...] R, large A / [...]NIER [...], short cross pattée. North 483; SCBC 960. Very Fine. Edge chipped.(0.64gr, 14mm, 12h.).
ProvenanceFrom the private collection of John Meredith, acquired since the 1990s; thence by descent.
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LOT 3827
Anglo-Saxon. Anglo-Viking (Danish East Anglia), "St Edmund Memorial" Coinage AR Penny.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £143
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Anglo-Saxon. Kings of Northumbria, Irregular and Unattributed issues AE Styca. Circa 843/4-855.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
Inscription around central motif / Inscription around central small cross pattée. Cf. SCBC 872. 0.88gr, 14mm, 2h.
Near Very Fine.
Found UK. Property of a North Yorkshire, UK, gentleman. -
Anglo-Saxon. Continental Sceattas AR Sceat. Circa 695-740. Series E, variety D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £85
Porcupine to right / Standard with four pellets around central annulet; all within two beaded squares. North 45; SCBC 790B. 1.01gr, 12mm, 2h.
Near Very Fine.
From the private collection of John Meredith, acquired since the 1990s; thence by descent. -
Anglo-Saxon. Kings of Mercia, Offa AR Penny. 760-792. East Anglia mint. Wihtred, moneyer. Light Coinage.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,820
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.
