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Triton XXIII  14-15 Jan 2020
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Lot 1276

Estimate: 10 000 USD
Price realized: 15 000 USD
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ANGLO-SAXON, Anglo-Viking (Hiberno-Norse Northumbria). St. Peter coinage. Circa 921-927. AR Penny (19mm, 1.19 g, 3hh). Sword/Hammer type. York mint. Struck under Sihtric II Caech. SCIIE/TIIIIO in two lines, voided sword and cross between, trefoils above and below / + ERIVIITOI, voided hammer, pellet in head; horizontal lines flanking. Stewart & Lyon dies 26a; SCBI 4 (Copenhagen), 591 (same dies); BMC –; North 556; SCBC 1015 (this coin illustrated, 54th ed.). A superb specimen. Attractively toned. EF. Very rare.


From the G.W. Trow Collection. Ex Dr. Andrew Wayne Collection (Triton XIX, 5 January 2016), lot 900; J. A. Hall Collection (Dix, Noonan, Webb 71, 28 September 2006), lot 33; Triton IV (5 December 2000), lot 942; L. R. Stack Collection (Sotheby's, 22 April 1999), lot 384; F. Knobloch Collection (Coin Galleries, 12 November 1986), lot 991; B. Roth Collection (Part II, Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 14-18 October 1918), lot 69.
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