Details
LOT 3824
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. Snick or crack at 7h. Very Rare.(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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