Early Anglo-Saxon Coins
BRITISH COINS, Kings of All England, Æthelstan, Penny, Circumscription Cross type, Chester, Abba, æd·elstan re to bre around small cross pattée, rev. abba moin legecf around small cross pattée, 1.49g/6h (Blunt 136; SCBI Chester I, 1, same dies; SCBI Chester II, 111, and CNG 103, 1165, same rev. die; cf. BMC 22; N 672; S 1093). Cracked, otherwise fine, dark patina £400-500
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Provenance: SCMB July 1962 (H 1000); bt Seaby January 1963