LOT 2230
Anglo-Saxon Coins - Harold II - London / Wulfgar - PAX Penny 1066 A.D.
BMC type i. Obv: profile bust left with sceptre and +HAROLD REX ANGLOR: legend. Rev: PAX across centre between lines with +PVLGARONLVND legend starting at 10 o'clock for the moneyer Wulfgar at London mint. Very fine; small crack at edge. Very rare.(1.24 grams.).
ProvenanceFound near North Cockerington, Lincolnshire, UK, 2022.
Recorded with Early Medieval Corpus, Cambridge, reference EMC 2022.0423.
Property of a Lincolnshire gentleman.
See Early Medieval Corpus, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, reference EMC 2022.0423 (this coin).
LiteratureS. 1186; N. 836.
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LOT 2230
Anglo-Saxon Coins - Harold II - London / Wulfgar - PAX Penny
Sold for (Inc. bp): £2,600
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Anglo-Saxon Coins - Continental Issues - Series X - Wodan Bust AR Sceatta 695-740 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £494
Obv: facing 'Wodan' head with long hair and beard; pellet-ended cross each side, within a pelleted border. Rev: dragon beast left with head looking back over shoulder to right, swallowing tail and with prominent pellet-tipped phallus, within a pelleted border. 1.09 grams.
Extremely fine; near as struck.
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. -
Hiberno-Norse Coins - Ireland - Sihtric Anlafsson - Long Cross and Hand Coinage - Portrait Penny 1035-1060 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £936
Phase III, imitating long cross issue of Aethelred II. Obv: profile bust left with +IINITRCMERIIO blundered legend, within a beaded border. Rev: long voided cross with 'hand' in two angles with I+I - IICI - IOI - CID blundered legend, within a beaded border. 0.93 grams.
Extremely fine.
Ex late John Cross collection, Canterbury, UK. Acquired Canterbury Auction Galleries, 3 October 2021, lot 569. Property of two Kent sisters, by gift from their parents. -
Saxon Coins - Merovingian - Man and Bird AR Denier 7th-8th century A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Obv: standing figure holding two long crosses. Rev: bird right. 1.07 grams.
Near very fine.
Found Cambridgeshire, UK.
