Spink
Auction 16019 22 March 2016
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Northumbria, joint issues of the Kings and the Archbishops of York, Alchred (c.758-66) with Ecgberht (732/4-758), Sceatta, 0.87g., + ALRHIIDE, retrograde, small cross, rev. +[.]CGBERHT A, small cross (Abr. Y600; N.193; S.853), chipped, 70% complete, otherwise about very fine, extremely rare.
C.J. Firth, Spink auction 1, 11 October 1978, 89Lord Grantley II, Glendining, 27-28 January 1944, 798E.W. Rashleigh, Sotheby, 28 June-1 July 1909, 131Ex DymockWith old collection tickets.First published by Rashleigh in 1869 (NC, illustrated pl. i, I), where it was attributed to Aethelwald Moll. This attribution was followed by Grantley. C.S.S. Lyon, in a 1956 reappraisal of the Sceatta and Styca coinage of Northumbria in the BNJ proposed that Alchred was a more likely attribution. This attribution is now widely accepted.
Estimate: £300.00 - £400.00
C.J. Firth, Spink auction 1, 11 October 1978, 89Lord Grantley II, Glendining, 27-28 January 1944, 798E.W. Rashleigh, Sotheby, 28 June-1 July 1909, 131Ex DymockWith old collection tickets.First published by Rashleigh in 1869 (NC, illustrated pl. i, I), where it was attributed to Aethelwald Moll. This attribution was followed by Grantley. C.S.S. Lyon, in a 1956 reappraisal of the Sceatta and Styca coinage of Northumbria in the BNJ proposed that Alchred was a more likely attribution. This attribution is now widely accepted.
Estimate: £300.00 - £400.00