Watch List notes:

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of Wessex. Alfred the Great. 871-899. AR Penny (20mm, 1.54 g, 9h). Two-line ('Guthram') type (BMC xiv). Winchester dies; Wulfræd moneyer. Struck 880-899. ΛEL FRE D REX, small cross pattée / VVLF/RED in two lines; three pellets between, pellet above and below. SCBI 4 (Copenhagen), 675; BMC 408 var. (obv. legend); North 639; SCBC 1067. Good VF, mottled tone.


From the Dr. Andrew Wayne Collection. Ex Morrison Collection (Spink 215, 4 December 2012), lot 10, purchased February 1969.