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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Very Fine.
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Very Fine.
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Anglo-Saxon, Kings of All England. Edward the Confessor AR Penny. Struck circa 1059-1062. Eoferwic (York) mint; Snaebjorn, moneyer. Hammer Cross type (BMC xia, Hild. G var.).
Sold for (Inc. bp): £468
✠ EΛDPΛRD D RE, crowned bust to right, sceptre before / ✠ SNEBORN ON EOF, voided cross, arms terminating in inward-facing crescents; annulet in first quarter. North 828; SCBC 1182. 1.30gr, 19mm, 4h.
Good Very Fine. Toned.
From the private collection of John Meredith, acquired since the 1990s; thence by descent.
