LOT 3822
Anglo-Saxon. Anglo-Viking (Hiberno-Norse Northumbria), Sihtric I Caoch AR Penny. 921-927. Uncertain mint; Albert, moneyer. Sword / Hammer type.
SIHTR-IC REX above and beneath sword to right / ✠ ALBERT • MOT (BE ligate), upright Thor's hammer, three crescents around. SCBI 4 (Copenhagen) -; North 536; SCBC 1013. Extremely Fine. Wavy flan. Toned. Exceedingly rare; apparently the first example in the market.(1.06gr, 20mm, 11h.).
ProvenanceFound Hagworthingham, near Spilsby, Lincolnshire, UK, on 18 May 2025.
Recorded by the Corpus of Early Medieval Coin Finds of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridgeshire, with reference no. EMC 2025.0245.
Accompanied by a copy of the British Museum's Portable Antiquities Scheme report no.LIN-DD54DB.
EMC note: A previously unrecorded moneyer in Sihtric I's Sword / T type (North 536). Designated by PAS as a find of note and of Regional importance.
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LOT 3822
Anglo-Saxon. Anglo-Viking (Hiberno-Norse Northumbria), Sihtric I Caoch AR Penny.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £22,750
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Anglo-Saxon, Kings of All England. Edward the Confessor AR Penny. Struck circa 1059-1062. York mint; Thorr, moneyer. Hammer Cross type (BMC xia, Hild. G var.).
Sold for (Inc. bp): £416
EDPARD-D REX, crowned bust to right, sceptre before / ✠ ÐORR ON EOFERPI, voided cross, arms terminating in inward-facing crescents; annulet in fourth quarter. North 828; SCBC 1182. 1.27gr, 19mm, 6h.
Good Very Fine. Toned.
Ex Spink and Sons Ltd. From the private collection of John Meredith, acquired since the 1990s; thence by descent. -
Anglo-Saxon. Kings of All England, Edward the Confessor AR Penny. Struck circa 1056-1059. York mint; Leofnoth, moneyer. Sovereign/Eagles type (BMC ixa, Hild. H var.).
Sold for (Inc. bp): £650
EDPΛRD RX ANGLOR, Edward seated facing on throne, holding sceptre and globus cruciger / ✠ LEFNEÐ ON EOFRP, voided cross; martlets and annulets in quarters. North 827 var. (annulets on rev.); SCBC 1181 var. (same). 1.33gr, 20mm, 3h.
Very Fine. Well-centred.
Ex Halls Auction, November 2008, lot 169. Ex Lockdales, 16 January 2011, lot 569. From the private collection of John Meredith, acquired since the 1990s; thence by descent. -
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Anglo-Saxon. Kings of Northumbria Aethelred II AE Styca. Second reign, 843/4-849/50. York mint; Eardwulf, moneyer.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
+ EDILRED REX around central short cross within plain border / + EΛRDVVLF around central five-pointed star within beaded border. SCBI 69 (Abramson), 961 var. (central motifs); North 190; SCBC 868. 0.74gr, 12mm, 6h.
Near Very Fine.
Found near Driffield, East Riding of Yorkshire, UK, since 2010. From the private collection of a Yorkshire, UK, gentleman.
