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Auction 20055  15 Sep 2020
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Lot 11

Starting price: 8000 GBP
Price realized: 8000 GBP
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Wessex, Alfred the Great (871-899), Penny, 'London Monogram', type A8(v), 1.52g, 6h, AELFRE-D REX, diademed bust right, with ornate tunic, eye turned upwards to heavens, rev. Monogram, no link between L and O, pellets within O, cross above, cross of five pellets to left (MacKay, London, dies 33 (O17/R30), coin 1; N.644; Spink 1061), softly struck above head, otherwise of quirky style, good very fine to almost extremely fine, a pleasing example of this iconic issue.
Provenance
A W Morrison, collection by private treaty with Ennismore, 2019

Estimate: £8,000 - £12,000
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