Noonans
Auction 146 25 Apr 2018
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Early Anglo-Saxon Coins
BRITISH COINS, Kings of Wessex, Alfred the Great, Penny, Phase III, Two Line type, London style, Hereferth, æl fr ed re around cross pattée, rev. hereferd divided by central pellet, cross pattée at upper right, 1.55g/8h (BMC 337; N 636; S 1066). Test scratches on both sides probably made contemporaneously, otherwise fine, reverse better, toned £300-400
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Provenance: R.T. Cassal Collection, Glendining Auction, 3-4 December 1924, lot 11 (part); W.L. Gantz Collection; with Seaby September 1926; bt Spink c. 1965.
The vendor's ticket states 'probably from a Scandinavian hoard, note test scratches'
BRITISH COINS, Kings of Wessex, Alfred the Great, Penny, Phase III, Two Line type, London style, Hereferth, æl fr ed re around cross pattée, rev. hereferd divided by central pellet, cross pattée at upper right, 1.55g/8h (BMC 337; N 636; S 1066). Test scratches on both sides probably made contemporaneously, otherwise fine, reverse better, toned £300-400
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Provenance: R.T. Cassal Collection, Glendining Auction, 3-4 December 1924, lot 11 (part); W.L. Gantz Collection; with Seaby September 1926; bt Spink c. 1965.
The vendor's ticket states 'probably from a Scandinavian hoard, note test scratches'