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LOT 3294

Anglo-Saxon. Kings of Wessex, Aethelstan AR Penny. 924-939.

York mint. Ragnald / Reinald, moneyer. Circumscription Cross type (BMC v). ✠ EÐELSTΛͶ REx TO BRIΓ, small cross pattée; crescent and seven pellets in field / ✠ REGN•Λ•⊥•D•M• -o EFoRPIC, small cross pattée. North 672; SCBC 1093. Near Very Fine. Flan crack at 7h.(1.29gr, 20mm, 2h.).

Provenance

Found near Cotham, Newark, Nottinghamshire, UK.
Recorded by the Corpus of Early Medieval Coin Finds of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridgeshire, with reference no. EMC 2025.0078.

Footnotes

The title on the obverse REX TO BRIT is an abbreviation of REX TOTIUS BRITANNIAEl, which means 'King of All Britain'. Aethelstan assumed this title after the incorporation of the Kingdom of York into his southern English kingdom and the submission of all the rulers in Britain to his overlordship.

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LOT 3294

Anglo-Saxon. Kings of Wessex, Aethelstan AR Penny.

Estimate £2,000 - 3,000€2,320 - 3,480 (for guidance only)$2,700 - 4,050 (for guidance only)

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