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Auction 18012  3 Jul 2018
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Lot 124

Starting price: 1400 GBP
Price realized: 3800 GBP
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(x) Mercia, Coenwulf (796-821), Penny, 1.24g, 9h, large portrait type (c.800-821), East Anglian mint (Ipswich?), Wihtred, coenvvcc rex, lf of name written as two square cs, simple, neat, diademed and draped bust right, breaking beaded inner circle, rev. + vvihtred, retrograde, round beaded inner circle containing 'star' of six rays around a central pellet (Naismith E12.4b this coin; N.367/1; S.920), good very fine, rare.
Provenance:
Spink Numismatic Circular, June 1999, no. 2346
Note on the Spink ticket: 'found in Kent 3 years ago'
Estimate: £2,000 - £2,500
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