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Auction 18011  27 Mar 2018
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Lot 48

Starting price: 2100 GBP
Price realized: 8500 GBP
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(x) Wessex, Ecgberht (802-839), Penny, 1.39g, 9h, Rochester, Dunun, + ecgbeorht rex, legend begins at 9 o'clock, diademed bust right within plain inner circle, rev. + dynyn moneta, ne ligate, cross potent within plain inner circle (Naismith R12.2c this coin; N.576; S.1039), dark tone, extremely fine, very rare.
Provenance:
Lawrence Stack, Sotheby, 22 April 1999, lot 389
Glendining, 27 May 1987, lot 361
Lockett, part VIII, Glendining, 4-6 November 1958, lot 2687, £82 to Spink
Found at Blandford, Dorset, before 1915

Discussed by Lockett in the Numismatic Chronicle XV (1915), pp. 336-344, and this coin illustrated on plate XVII no.5
Estimate: £3,000.00 - £4,000.00
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