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LOT 3823

Anglo-Saxon. Kings of Wessex, Aethelstan AR Penny. 924-939. Norwich mint; Burhelm, moneyer. Bust Crowned (BC) type (BMC viii).

✠ ÆÐELSTAN REX T •, crowned and draped bust to right / ✠ BYRDEL MO ͶORÐP, small cross pattée. North 675; SCBC 1095. Near Very Fine.(1.57gr, 21mm. 12h.).

Provenance

Found near Euston, Thetford, Suffolk, UK.
Recorded by the Corpus of Early Medieval Coin Finds of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridgeshire, with reference no. EMC 2025.0237.

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LOT 3823

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

Sold for (Inc. bp): £2,470

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