LOT 3293
Anglo-Saxon. Kings of Mercia, Burgred AR Penny. 852-874.
Uncertain mint. Hereferth, moneyer. Lunettes Unbroken type. Phase III, struck circa 868/70-874. BVRGR[...], diademed and draped bust to right / [...]EREFER across central field; Ð MoN-[...] in lunettes above and below. North 423; cf. SCBC 942B. Very Fine. Toned. Edge chipped.(0.56gr, 18mm, 2h.).
ProvenanceFound near Cotham, Nottinghamshire, UK.
Recorded by the Corpus of Early Medieval Coin Finds of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridgeshire, with reference no. EMC 2025.0077.
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Anglo-Saxon. Continental Sceattas AR Sceatta. Circa 715/20-740.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £156
Series E, variety E. 'Porcupine' with snout and no legs to right, enclosing numerous pellets / Beaded 'standard' with lines and pellets around pellet-in-annulet. Cf. Abramson 99-15; SCBC 790D. 1.09gr, 12mm.
Good Very Fine.
Found Yorkshire, UK. From the private collection of Robin Sykes, Yorkshire, UK, formed since the late 1990s. -
Anglo-Saxon. Kings of Northumbria, Irregular issues AE Styca. Circa 843/4-855.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
In the name of Eanred. Uncertain moneyer. + EANR REX around central pelleted cross / Blundered legend around uncertain central motif. North p. 72; SCBC 872. 0.68gr, 13mm, 3h.
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, Irregular issues AE Styca. Circa 843/4-855.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
York mint. Copying an issue for Aethelred II. + EDILRED (retrograde) small cross within dotted circle / Blundered legend around stellate pattern. North p. 72; SCBC 872. 0.61gr, 12mm, 7h.
Near Very Fine.
Found near Driffield, East Riding of Yorkshire, UK, since 2010. From the private collection of a Yorkshire, UK, gentleman.
