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LOT 3821
Denmark. Godfred AR Penny. Circa 825-860 AD. Ribe mint. Head and Deer Type. Imitating a Wodan/Monster Sceatta.
Bearded bust facing with crosses on cheeks, surrounded by four faces and symbols / Stylised deer with hatched body to right, head facing back to the left; below, symbols. KG 5. Very Fine.(0.90gr, 20mm, 8h.).
ProvenancePrivate collection formed in Europe in the 1980s.
Westminster collection, central London, UK.
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Anglo-Saxon, Kings of All England. Edward the Confessor AR Penny. Struck 1053-1056. York mint; Thorr, moneyer. Pointed Helmet type (BMC vii, Hild. F).
Sold for (Inc. bp): £650
✠ EDPER-D REX, helmeted and draped bust to right, holding cross-tipped sceptre / ✠ ÐORR ON EOFERPI, voided short cross with pellet-in-annulet centre and triple crescent ends; annulet in first quarter. North 825; SCBC 1179. 1.38gr, 19mm, 5h.
Good Very Fine. Toned. Detailed portrait.
Ex Spink and Sons Ltd. From the private collection of John Meredith, acquired since the 1990s; thence by descent. -
Anglo-Saxon. Kings of Wessex, Aethelstan AR Penny. 924-939. Norwich mint; Burhelm, moneyer. Bust Crowned (BC) type (BMC viii).
Sold for (Inc. bp): £2,470
✠ ÆÐELSTAN REX T •, crowned and draped bust to right / ✠ BYRDEL MO ͶORÐP, small cross pattée. North 675; SCBC 1095. 1.57gr, 21mm. 12h.
Near Very Fine.
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. -
Anglo-Saxon. Kings of Northumbria, Aethelred II AE Styca. First reign, 841-843/4. York mint; Leofdegn, moneyer.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
+ EDELRED RE around central cross with pellets in angles(?) / + LEOFDEJИ around central small cross. North 188; SCBC 865. 0.95gr, 12mm, 9h.
Near Very Fine.
Found near Driffield, East Riding of Yorkshire, UK, since 2010. From the private collection of a Yorkshire, UK, gentleman.
