Watch List notes:

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of Wessex. Alfred the Great. 871-899. AR Penny (21mm, 1.56 g, 2h). Two-line ('Guthram') type. Uncertain mint; Beorhthelm, moneyer. Struck circa 880-899. ΛEL FRE DREX, small cross pattée / BУRN/ELM M in two lines; three pellets between, trefoil of pellets above, pellet below. Cf. Grierson, Coins of Medieval Europe, p. 48; SCBI 26 (East Anglia), 86; cf. BMC 223-4; North 475/1; SCBC 1067. Toned. Near EF.


From the Richard A. Jourdan Collection of Medieval European Coins, purchased from Charles H. Wolfe, III, 1999.