Watch List notes:

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of Wessex. Æthelred I. 865/6-871. AR Penny (20mm, 1.21 g, 6h). Lunettes type. Canterbury mint; Tohrtmund, moneyer. Struck circa 867-871. + ΛEÐELRED REX, diademed bust right / TOR(HT)MV across central field; (ND) MO (NE)TΛ in lunettes above and below, trefoil of pellets in upper lunette. Lyons & MacKay Group 2, dies A/1, Ae2.115; SCBI 67 (BM), 1399 (same dies); North 622; SCBC 1055. Rich cabinet tone. EF. Well struck on a broad flan. Rare.


From the G.W. Trow Collection. Ex Hodgson Collection (Spink 230, 15 July 2015), lot 323, purchased from Spink, March 1975.