Spink
Auction 18011 27 Mar 2018
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(x) Mercia, Burgred (852-874), Penny, 1.19g, 3h, Duda, + bvrgred rex, diademed and draped bust right breaking inner circle, type with lips omitted, rev. mon / +dvda / ·:eta, in three lines divided by two lines with curved ends (MacKay H1.16 this coin; N.426; S.942D), almost extremely fine.
Provenance:
De Witt, Kunker 137, 11 March 2008, lot 3042,
Spink Numismatic Circular, April 1071, no. 4291
Parsons, Glendining, 11 May 1954, lot 114 (part)
From the Gravesend, Kent hoard, 1838 (see inventory by Edward Hawkins in Numismatic Chronicle, vol. III (1841) pp. 14-34, in which a single coin with this reverse is described on page 20).
The o on the reverse is described by MacKay as 'O with cruciform spikes'. In the Hawkins inventory the same type of o is illustrated, and it is described as 'lozenge' .
Estimate: £500.00 - £600.00
Provenance:
De Witt, Kunker 137, 11 March 2008, lot 3042,
Spink Numismatic Circular, April 1071, no. 4291
Parsons, Glendining, 11 May 1954, lot 114 (part)
From the Gravesend, Kent hoard, 1838 (see inventory by Edward Hawkins in Numismatic Chronicle, vol. III (1841) pp. 14-34, in which a single coin with this reverse is described on page 20).
The o on the reverse is described by MacKay as 'O with cruciform spikes'. In the Hawkins inventory the same type of o is illustrated, and it is described as 'lozenge' .
Estimate: £500.00 - £600.00