Watch List notes:

Electrotype of English hammered coinage. Eadwig. 955-959. Penny electrotype. 21 mm. Type i. The British Museum piece weighs 21.8 grains (1.41 gm). (?-796). +EΛDVVIG REX I around; small cross patee in center / ÆLFRED +++ EZMON in three lines, florette formed of seven pellets above and below. BMC Vol II; Eadwig 15 (Pl. XII: 1). N. 724. S. 1122. (Seaby/Spink Standard Catalog plate coin, 1976 to 2007). As made.

All British electrotypes offered here are joined into a single piece. 

Electrotypes of Anglo-Saxon and English coins in the British Museum 
Used for the Standard Catalog prior to 2007 

These double-thick electrotypes of British Museum Anglo-Saxon and English hammered coins have not had the prominence of the series of Greek coin electros we have been offering. But they are direct copies of pieces in the British Museum and many can be seen in the plates of the the two BMC volumes issued in 1887 and 1893: Keary & Poole, A Catalogue of English Coins in the British Museum, Anglo-Saxon Series Volume I. and Grueber & Keary, A Catalogue of English Coins in the British Museum, Anglo-Saxon Series Volume II. 

These copies were used for the production of the reference that has become the standard for English coins, the Spink Standard Catalog.  (Prior to 1998 the publication was known as the Seaby Standard Catalog.) The pieces offered here are the actual pieces photographed for all the annual catalogs from the small format 15th edition in 1976 until the major revision in the 42nd edition 2007, when the catalog changed from black and white to color. (Prior to the larger size publications begun with the 16th edition in 1978, the earlier editions beginning in 1962 were smaller 5 by 7 ½ inch books. Earlier still, prior to 1962 the publications were larger and thinner with drawings rather than photographs illustrating the coins.) 

They are apparently extremely rare if not generally unique. I have seen a very few examples of other types in this format being offered but never a duplication of any offered here. (AD)