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Triton XIX Sessions 1 & 2  5 January 2016
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Lot 927

Estimate: 3000 USD
Price realized: 3750 USD
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ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of All England. Eadgar. 959-975. AR Penny (22mm, 1.56 g, 5h). Circumscription Cross type. Chester mint; Ælfsige, moneyer. Struck circa 961-963. + EΛDGΛR REX TOBR, small cross pattée, conjoined crescents in field / + ÆLFSIG MO IN LEC, small cross pattée. CTCE 288b = SCBI 16 (Norweb), 167 (this coin); North 749; SCBC 1135. EF, richly toned. Struck on a slightly wavy broad flan. Very rare.


From the Dr. Andrew Wayne Collection. Ex Spink 207 (23 March 2011), lot 26; E. M. Norweb Collection (Part 1, Spink 45, 13 June 1985), lot 65; V. Brand Collection; P.W.P. Carlyon-Britton (Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 17 November 1913), lot 452; F. McClean ["Astronomer"] Collection (Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 11 June 1906), lot 192 (part of); H. Montagu Collection (Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 23 November 1895), lot 713; Rev. E.J. Shepherd Collection (Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 22 July 1885), lot 99 (part of).
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