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Auction 18011  27 Mar 2018
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Lot 31

Starting price: 1800 GBP
Price realized: 8000 GBP
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(x) Mercia, Coenwulf (796-821), Penny, 1.28g, 12h, large portrait type (c.800-821), East Anglian mint (Ipswich?), Lul, convvlf - rex m, retrograde n, r and m inverted, crude diademed bust right, bust extends below, but does not break, the plain inner circle, rev. + / l / v / l in angles of cross within large quatrefoil, three pellets with each l and rosettes of pellets in cusps (Naismith E10.2i this coin; N.363; S.919), slight verdigris on obverse, toned, extremely fine, very rare.
Provenance:
Lawrence Stack, Sotheby, 22-23 April 1999, lot 311
John Dresser, Stack's, 4 May 1995, lot 2175
Spink Numismatic Circular, June 1947, no. 49784, EF £22.10/-
Lord Grantly, part 3, Glendining, 22-23 March 1944, lot 846
Spink Numismatic Circular, April 1913, no. 4078, £5.0.0.
Spink Numismatic Circular, October 1911, no. 91961, £7.0.0. (this item numbered 81961 in error)
Sir John Evans (duplicates) collection
Delgany, Co. Wicklow, hoard (Sir John Evans, Numismatic Chronicle 1882, no. 26)
Estimate: £2,500.00 - £3,000.00
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