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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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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.
