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Auction 18011 27 Mar 2018
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(x) Archbishops of Canterbury, Wulfred (805-832), Penny, 1.43g, 6h, 'Baldred' type, group VI (c.823-825), Swefherd, + vvlfred archiepis, tonsured and draped bust facing, two pellets at left, all within solid inner circle rev. + svvefherd monet, around solid inner circle containing drvr / cits (for Dorovernia Civitas) (SCBI 20 (Mack) 659 this coin; Naismith C68d this coin; N.239; S.891), of good metal and the surfaces now with attractive old cabinet toning, good very fine, very rare.
Provenance:
Linzalone, Stack's, 7 December 1994, lot 2330
Mack collection, sold privately (with his ticket)
Lockett, Glendining, 6-9 June 1955, lot 335
Carlyon-Britton, Sotheby, 17-21 November 1913, lot 298
Astronomer (F. McClean), Sotheby, 11-12 June 1906, lot 125
Montagu, Sotheby, 18-23 November 1895, lot 307 £15 to McClean
Brice, collection purchased by Montagu, 1887
Shepherd, Sotheby, 22-25 July 1885, lot 50, £16 to Brice
Murchison, Sotheby, 28-30 May 1866, lot 90, £10.10/- to Shepherd
Loscombe, Sotheby, 30 March - 14 April 1855, lot 1056, £18 to Lincoln
Sevington, Wiltshire, hoard, 1834 (see Archaeologia xxvii, pl. xxiii no. 2)
The Sevington hoard is not recorded as a provenance for this coin in any of the sale catalogues prior to the publication of SCBI 20 in 1973. The hoard, discovered on a farm at Sevington in North Wiltshire in 1834, contained 70 coins, as well as a quantity of silver objects including two that were described as ' a spoon and a fork'. The hoard was briefly described by Edward Hawkins in a paper read to the Society of Antiquities of London in 1837, and is dealt with more thoroughly by C. E. Blunt in BNJ vol. XLI (1972) pp. 7-13.
The bulk of the hoard was aquired by Mr C. W. Loscombe who at the time was living at Pickwick House in Corsham, just three miles south of Sevington. His collection was dispersed by Sotheby in an eight day auction containing 1,472 lots, in 1855 ('the late C.W. Loscombe Esq. F.S.A. of Clifton comprising ... Ancient British and Anglo-Saxon coins many being of great rarity & interest'). In the Spink library copy of the Loscombe catalogue under lot 1031 it is noted 'This and many other Saxon coins in this collection were found at Sevington in Wiltshire, see Archeologia.' Under lots 1034-1037 (Sceattas) it is noted 'these Berhtulfs were all from Sevington, and none of them fine, they all sold well, but the price of 1036 was most extravagant.' There were two coins of Archbishop Wulfred in the collection, lots 1055 and 1056. Under lot 1056, the coin offered here, it is written 'This and the preceeding lot were from Sevington & both extr. fine.'
Estimate: £6,000.00 - £8,000.00
Provenance:
Linzalone, Stack's, 7 December 1994, lot 2330
Mack collection, sold privately (with his ticket)
Lockett, Glendining, 6-9 June 1955, lot 335
Carlyon-Britton, Sotheby, 17-21 November 1913, lot 298
Astronomer (F. McClean), Sotheby, 11-12 June 1906, lot 125
Montagu, Sotheby, 18-23 November 1895, lot 307 £15 to McClean
Brice, collection purchased by Montagu, 1887
Shepherd, Sotheby, 22-25 July 1885, lot 50, £16 to Brice
Murchison, Sotheby, 28-30 May 1866, lot 90, £10.10/- to Shepherd
Loscombe, Sotheby, 30 March - 14 April 1855, lot 1056, £18 to Lincoln
Sevington, Wiltshire, hoard, 1834 (see Archaeologia xxvii, pl. xxiii no. 2)
The Sevington hoard is not recorded as a provenance for this coin in any of the sale catalogues prior to the publication of SCBI 20 in 1973. The hoard, discovered on a farm at Sevington in North Wiltshire in 1834, contained 70 coins, as well as a quantity of silver objects including two that were described as ' a spoon and a fork'. The hoard was briefly described by Edward Hawkins in a paper read to the Society of Antiquities of London in 1837, and is dealt with more thoroughly by C. E. Blunt in BNJ vol. XLI (1972) pp. 7-13.
The bulk of the hoard was aquired by Mr C. W. Loscombe who at the time was living at Pickwick House in Corsham, just three miles south of Sevington. His collection was dispersed by Sotheby in an eight day auction containing 1,472 lots, in 1855 ('the late C.W. Loscombe Esq. F.S.A. of Clifton comprising ... Ancient British and Anglo-Saxon coins many being of great rarity & interest'). In the Spink library copy of the Loscombe catalogue under lot 1031 it is noted 'This and many other Saxon coins in this collection were found at Sevington in Wiltshire, see Archeologia.' Under lots 1034-1037 (Sceattas) it is noted 'these Berhtulfs were all from Sevington, and none of them fine, they all sold well, but the price of 1036 was most extravagant.' There were two coins of Archbishop Wulfred in the collection, lots 1055 and 1056. Under lot 1056, the coin offered here, it is written 'This and the preceeding lot were from Sevington & both extr. fine.'
Estimate: £6,000.00 - £8,000.00