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 1053-1056. York mint; Thorr, moneyer. Pointed Helmet type (BMC vii, Hild. F).
Sold for (Inc. bp): £650
✠ EDPER-D REX, helmeted and draped bust to right, holding cross-tipped sceptre / ✠ ÐORR ON EOFERPI, voided short cross with pellet-in-annulet centre and triple crescent ends; annulet in first quarter. North 825; SCBC 1179. 1.38gr, 19mm, 5h.
Good Very Fine. Toned. Detailed portrait.
Ex Spink and Sons Ltd. From the private collection of John Meredith, acquired since the 1990s; thence by descent. -
Anglo-Saxon. Kings of Northumbria, Uncertain King II AE Styca. 9th century AD. Uncertain moneyer.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
+ E[...]EDE(?) (retrograde), central cross / Illegible legend around central motif. Cf. SCBC 859-872. 1.24gr, 14mm.
Near Very Fine.
Found near Driffield, East Riding of Yorkshire, UK, since 2010. From the private collection of a Yorkshire, UK, gentleman. -
Anglo-Saxon. Kings of Northumbria, Aethelred II AE Styca. First or second reign, 841-843/4 and 843/4-849/50. York mint; Leofdegn, moneyer.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
+ EDELRED REX around central ω / + LEOFDEJИ around central short cross pattée within plain border. Pagan, "The Bolton Percy Hoard of 1967," in BNJ 43 (1973), 201; Pirie, Guide 3.10i; North 188; SCBC 865 & 868. 1.07gr, 12mm, 9h.
Near Very Fine.
Found near Driffield, East Riding of Yorkshire, UK, since 2010. From the private collection of a Yorkshire, UK, gentleman.
