LOT 3277
Anglo-Saxon. Archbishops of York, Wigmund AE Styca. 837-849/50.
York mint; Hunlaf, moneyer. + VIGMVND IR•(?) (retrograde) around central cross / + HVNLAF• (retrograde) around central pellet in circle of pellets. Cf. Pirie 919; cf. SCBI 69, 1057-9; SCBC 870. Near Fine.(0.90gr, 12mm, 12h.).
ProvenanceFound near Driffield, East Riding of Yorkshire, UK, since 2010.
From the private collection of a Yorkshire, UK, gentleman.
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Anglo-Saxon. Kings of Northumbria Aethelred II AE Styca. First reign, 841-843/4.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
York mint; Eanred, moneyer. + EDILRED REX around central cross pattée / (Cross patonce) AͶRED around central cross pattée with pellets in angles. Pirie 1383; North 188; SCBC 865. 0.83gr, 11mm, 6h.
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, Aelfwald II AR Styca. 806-808.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,430
York mint. Cuthgils, moneyer. ✠ FALEVALDVƧ around central cross pattée / ✠ CVDG⅃[...] around central pellet. Cf. North 183; cf. SCBC 859. 0.90gr, 13mm, 3h.
Near Very Fine. Excessively rare moneyer.
Found near Driffield, East Riding of Yorkshire, UK, in the 1990s. Recorded by the Corpus of Early Medieval Coin Finds of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridgeshire, with reference no. EMC 2025.0079. -
Anglo-Saxon. Kings of Northumbria, Eadberht AR Styca. 737-758.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
York mint. E◊TBERHTVΓ around central small cross / Quadruped standing to left, raising foreleg. North 177; SCBC 847. 0.71gr, 12mm, 5h.
Near Fine.
Found Yorkshire, UK. From the private collection of Robin Sykes, Yorkshire, UK, formed since the late 1990s.
