LOT 2231
Anglo-Saxon Coins - Aethelred II - London / Wulfstan - Long Cross Penny 997-1003 A.D.
BMC type iva. Obv: profile bust with +ÆÐELRÆDREXANGLO legend. Rev: long voided cross dividing +PVL FSTA NM-O LVND legend for the moneyer Wulfstan at London mint. Good very fine.(1.31 grams.).
ProvenanceFound near Hemingstone, Suffolk, UK.
Property of a Kent collector.
S 1151; N. 774.
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LOT 2231
Anglo-Saxon Coins - Aethelred II - London / Wulfstan - Long Cross Penny
Sold for (Inc. bp): £338
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Anglo-Saxon Coins - Secondary Phase - Series G Type 3a - Portrait AR Sceatta 710-760 A.D.
Estimate: £250 - 350 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £125
Obv: diademed bust right holding in front a short cross, within a pelleted border. Rev: standard with three saltires and trefoil of pellets in fourth quarter, pellet in annulet in centre, within a beaded square. 0.98 grams.
Extremely fine.
Ex late John Cross collection, Canterbury, UK. Acquired Canterbury Auction Galleries, 3 October 2021, lot 569 (part). Property of two Kent sisters, by gift from their parents. -
Anglo-Saxon Coins - Secondary Phase - Series L, Type 18 - Man and Hawk AR Sceatta 710-760 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £98
Obv: profile bust right with cross before. Rev: standing figure in crescent boat holding cross and hawk. 0.76 grams.
Near very fine.
Found Sutton Courtenay, Oxfordshire, UK, recorded with Early Medieval Corpus, reference EMC 2018.0021. -
Anglo-Saxon Coins - Secondary Phase - Series J Type 37 - Double Portrait AR Sceatta 710-760 A.D.
Estimate: £300 - 400 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £150
Obv: two diademed heads face-to-face, long cross in centre with tripod base, within pelleted border. Rev: four birds clockwise around small cross, within a border of two pelleted circles. 1.13 grams.
Near extremely fine.
Ex late John Cross collection, Canterbury, UK. Acquired Canterbury Auction Galleries, 3 October 2021, lot 569 (part). Property of two Kent sisters, by gift from their parents.
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