LOT 3825
Anglo-Saxon. Kings of Mercia, Coenwulf I AR Penny. Struck 820. Rochester mint; Ealhstan, moneyer. Group III. Cross and wedge type.
✠ COENVVLF : REX m, diademed bust to right / + EALஃͶZTAH mOHT, cross pommée with wedges in each angle within inner circle.
North 355/cn76; SCBC 917. Very Fine. Beautiful iridescent toning.(1.22gr, 20mm, 10h.).
Found in Breckland, Norfolk, UK, on Friday 22nd December 2023.
Accompanied by a copy of the British Museum's Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) report no.NMS-F6E4AE.
Recorded by the Corpus of Early Medieval Coin Finds of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridgeshire, with reference no. EMC 2023.0536.
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LOT 3825
Anglo-Saxon. Kings of Mercia, Coenwulf I AR Penny.
Estimate £1,500 - 2,000€1,740 - 2,320 (for guidance only)$2,030 - 2,700 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£720 (EUR 835; USD 972) +BP*
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Anglo-saxon. Secondary Phase AR Sceat. 710-760. Series G; Type 3a.
Estimate: £300 - 400 (+bp*)
Bids: 1 | Current Bid: £5
Diademed bust to right holding in front short cross, within pelleted border / Standard with three saltires and trefoil of pellets in fourth quarter, pellet in annulet in centre, within beaded square. SCBC 800; Abramson 21; North 43. 0.97gr, 12mm, 6h.
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. Continental Sceattas AR Sceat. Circa 695/700-710/5. Mint in Frisia (Dorestad?). Series E, Primary ('Ashton Rowant') phase, porcupine VICO 3.
Estimate: £80 - 100 (+bp*)
Bids: 1 | Current Bid: £5
'Porcupine' to right, annulet within curve of body / 'Standard' with central annulet, Π-like, chevron, 2-pellet-bar, and pellets around (degenerate VICO). EMC 1999.0184 and EMC 2002.0234; SCBC 790A. 1.11gr, 12mm, 12h.
Extremely Fine.
From the private collection of John Meredith, acquired since the 1990s; thence by descent. -
Anglo-Saxon, Kings of All England. Cnut AR Penny. Struck circa 1024-1030. Stamford mint; Osweard, moneyer. Pointed Helmet type (BMC xiv, Hild. G).
Estimate: £150 - 200 (+bp*)
Bids: 3 | Current Bid: £110
✠ CNVT RECX A :, bust to left, wearing pointed helmet; trefoil-tipped sceptre before / ✠ OSPERD ON • NSTAN, voided short cross, limbs united at base by two concentric circles with pellet in centre; in each angle, broken annulet enclosing pellet. North 787; SCBC 1158. 0.90gr, 19mm, 12h.
Good Very Fine. Apparently the only variant with this reverse legend arrangement.
Found UK. Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman.
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