LOT 3743
Anglo-Saxon. Kings of Mercia, Coenwulf AR Penny. Struck circa 810-821. Canterbury mint; Swefheard, moneyer. Large portrait type.
[✠ CO]ENVVLF REX m, diademed and draped bust to right / ✠ [SVVEF]HERD MONETΛ, cross fourchée with pellets in angles. Naismith C43e; SCBI 68 (Lyon), 571; North 353; SCBC 916. Good Very Fine. Toned. Edge chipped. Rare.(0.99gr, 21mm, 3h.).
ProvenanceFrom a private East Anglian collection formed since the 1980s.
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Anglo-Saxon. Kings of Northumbria, Irregular and Unattributed issues AE Styca. Circa 843/4-855.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Legend around central cross pattée / Legend around central motif. Cf. SCBC 872. 0.87gr, 12mm.
Near Very Fine.
Found near Driffield, Yorkshire, UK. -
Anglo-Saxon, Kings of All England. Aethelred II AR Penny. Struck circa 1003-1009. Winchester mint; Byrhsige moneyer. Helmet type (BMC viii, Hild. E).
Sold for (Inc. bp): £260
✠ [Æ]ÐELRED REX ΛNGL • (NG ligate), armoured bust to left, wearing radiate helmet / ✠ BY-RHSI-[G]E Mⵙ PINT, voided long cross with triple-crescent ends and pellet at centre; in each quarter, trefoil on pile. North 775; SCBC 1152. 1.43gr, 19mm, 9h.
Good Very Fine. Pierced.
Acquired on the UK art market before 2000. Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman. -
Anglo-Saxon. Continental Sceattas AR Sceatta. Circa 700-765. Mint in Frisia (Dorestad). Series E.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £91
'Porcupine' with snout to right / Beaded 'standard' with three chevron, one line and a pellet around central annulet. SCBI 63 (BM) -; cf. Abramson 88-20; cf. SCBC 790A. 1.16gr, 11mm.
Good Very Fine. Extremely rare; apparently unpublished variety.
Found Gloucestershire, UK.
