Baldwin & Sons
Auction 103 6 Oct 2021
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Coenwulf (796‐821), King of Mercia, Penny, East Anglia, later types, moneyer Hereberht, bust right
breaking pelleted inner circle, reads from 8 o'clock COENVVLF REX M, the LF ligate. Rev, cross moline,
legend surrounds HEREBERHT, single pellets between most of the letters, a trefoil of pellets between
the R:.E of moneyer, 1.36g (S.920; N.364 var; Naismith type E9.4, this coin). Recorded as a crude type with
thin lettering and elementary portraits. A little weak in the portrait, set out on a full flan, legends both sides
intelligible and concise, outer borders visible. Rev, slight fade to the cross moline motif. Very fine, excessively rare,
with an excellent provenance.
Ex. Spink Numismatic Circular, August 2008, HS 3440, with an in house Spink ticket.
Hereberht is a known East Anglian moneyer. Naismith records this coin as the one specimen with
the cross moline reverse. Cross moline coins of finer style are known from the Canterbury moneyers
Tidbearht and Werheard (BLS 40-1). This coin, possibly one of two examples known. The other being
the DNW specimen which went to auction in March 2012.
breaking pelleted inner circle, reads from 8 o'clock COENVVLF REX M, the LF ligate. Rev, cross moline,
legend surrounds HEREBERHT, single pellets between most of the letters, a trefoil of pellets between
the R:.E of moneyer, 1.36g (S.920; N.364 var; Naismith type E9.4, this coin). Recorded as a crude type with
thin lettering and elementary portraits. A little weak in the portrait, set out on a full flan, legends both sides
intelligible and concise, outer borders visible. Rev, slight fade to the cross moline motif. Very fine, excessively rare,
with an excellent provenance.
Ex. Spink Numismatic Circular, August 2008, HS 3440, with an in house Spink ticket.
Hereberht is a known East Anglian moneyer. Naismith records this coin as the one specimen with
the cross moline reverse. Cross moline coins of finer style are known from the Canterbury moneyers
Tidbearht and Werheard (BLS 40-1). This coin, possibly one of two examples known. The other being
the DNW specimen which went to auction in March 2012.