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LOT 8002
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Anglo-Saxon Coins - Ecgberht of Wessex - Winchester / Beornheard - New Dies Monogram Penny 829-839 AD
Obv: SAXON inscription with letters separated and set around the A with +ECGBEORHT REX legend from 7 o'clock. Rev: cross with +BEORNEHART legend from 1 o'clock for the moneyer Beornheard (sometimes given as Beornehart) at Winchester mint. 1.21 grams.
Very fine. Unique; dies previously unrecorded.
PROVENANCE:
Found near Four Marks, Hampshire, UK, 1990s; this lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by AIAD certificate number no.10817-177427.
PUBLISHED:
See Early Medieval Corpus, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, reference EMC 2021.0175 (this coin).
LITERATURE:
S. 1041; N. 589; see Naismith W4 and pl.103 for type (W4a-h, all from different dies to this coin); see EMC 1002.0534 for type (different dies).
FOOTNOTES:
This issue is now usually ascribed to the mint at Winchester but some previous cataloguers, such as North, referred to them simply as being from a 'West Saxon Mint'; it is the first new dies coin to be recorded since the publication of Rory Naismith's The Coinage of Southern England, 796-865, in 2011.
