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LOT 3565
Sold for (Inc. bp): £6,000
Anglo-Saxon Coins Eadwig - North-Western Mint / Aelfsige - Floral Type C Penny 955-959 AD
BMC type IV. Obv: small cross with EADPIGEREX legend. Rev: mitre-shaped floral design with rosette below dividing ÆLF - SIGE across fields for the moneyer Ælfsige at a north-western mint. 0.94 grams.
Very fine; small chip at edge. Extremely rare; second recorded specimen in over fifty years.
PROVENANCE:
Found Haddiscoe, Norfolk, UK, October 2019.
PUBLISHED:
See Medieval Corpus, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, reference MEC 2019.0357 (this coin); see Portable Antiquities Scheme, reference NMS-5258A8 (ditto).
LITERATURE:
S. 1125; N. 737; see EMC 1017-0158 for the only other example for this moneyer (fragment, probably same dies).
FOOTNOTES:
Only one other example for this moneyer has been recorded, a fragment excavated at Warwick in 1967 (see EMC 1017.0158).
