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E-Auction 13  4 November 2015
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Lot 49

Estimate: 1000 USD
Price realized: 1600 USD
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Kings of Wessex. Alfred the Great. 871-899. AR two-line penny. 1.47 gm. 21 mm. Third coinage (circa 880-899) Canterbury type. BMC xvii. Danish East Anglia. +ELFREDREX DORO around small cross / Moneyer's name in two lines with pellets above, below and in between; BARHV ΛIDMO. S. 1069. N. 638. Very Fine; obverse struck with a rusty die; central cross weak and some scratches suggesting an effort to rub out the cross. Rare and significant type.
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