LOT 3833
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).
✠ 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. Good Very Fine. Toned. Detailed portrait.(1.38gr, 19mm, 5h.).
ProvenanceEx Spink and Sons Ltd.
From the private collection of John Meredith, acquired since the 1990s; thence by descent.
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LOT 3833
Anglo-Saxon, Kings of All England. Edward the Confessor AR Penny.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £650
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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 All England. Aethelred II AR Penny. Struck circa 991-997. Southwark mint, Aethelweard, moneyer. Crux type (BMC iiia, Hild. C).
Estimate: £180 - 240 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £90
✠ ÆÐELRÆD REX ANGLOX (NG ligate), draped bust to left; trefoil-tipped sceptre before / ✠ ÆÐELPERD M-O SVÐB, voided cross with C-R-V-X in angles. North 770; SCBC 1148. 1.46gr, 21mm, 12h.
Good Fine. Pierced.
Acquired on the UK art market before 2000. Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman. -
Anglo-Saxon. Kings of Northumbria, Eadberht AR Sceatt. 737-758. York mint. Class F.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £286
E◊TBERHTVƧ around central pellet within beaded border / Heraldic quadruped standing to right, raising foreleg; triquetra below. Pirie, Guide 2.1g; North 177; SCBC 847. 0.99gr, 13mm, 1h.
Good Very Fine.
Found near Driffield, Yorkshire, UK. Recorded by the Corpus of Early Medieval Coin Finds of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridgeshire, with reference no.2025.0310.
