(x) East Anglia, Saint Edmund (855-869), Penny, 1.36g, 6h, early phase (c.855-870), Beornferth, + eadmvnd rex an, around beaded inner circle containing three crosses on single stem, rev. beornferÐ mo, around beaded inner circle containing cross with pellets in angles (Naismith E56.1h this coin; N.459; S.955), almost extremely fine, rare.
Provenance:
Spink auction 82, 27 March 1991, lot 94
Norweb, part 4, Spink auction 59, 17 June 1987, lot 1180
Brand, collection dispersed after 1932
Ready, Sotheby, 15 November 1920, lot 42
Astronomer, Sotheby, 11-12 June 1906, lot 110
Bateman, Sotheby, 4 May 1893, lot 266
Cuff, Sotheby, 8 June - 3 July 1854, lot 330
Illustrated in Ruding, Annals of the Coinage, plate 9 no. 4, where the obverse is depicted upside-down
EMC 1016.0111
Estimate: £1,200.00 - £1,500.00