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Auction 20055  15 Sep 2020
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Lot 19

Starting price: 5000 GBP
Price realized: 26 000 GBP
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Danelaw, Viking Kingdoms, Municipal or Ecclesiastical issues, temp. Archbishop Hrotheweard (c. 919-925), Penny, 'St Peter Coinage', Sword type, Jórvík [York], 1.11g, 6h, SCIIE | TIIIO in two lines, divided by sword right, + to right, pellets to left, rev. +ERIVIITOI, voided hammer upright, pellet in head, bars beside (SCBI 4 [Copenhagen], 591, same dies; N.556; Spink 1015), a delightful coin with a pleasing old cabinet tone across a full flan, the central devices in high relief, extremely fine or very near so, rare, especially so in this condition.
provenance
DNW, 16 September 2014, lot 2333
SCMB, June 1960, no. 6264 (acquired 1962)
Lockett, Part III, Glendining, 4-6 November 1958, lot 2685 (illus).
Lord Grantley, Part III, Glendining, 22-23 March 1944, lot 943
Sir Charles Robinson, Christie's, 25 November 1891, lot unspecified

Estimate: £5,000 - £8,000
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