ANGLO-SAXON, Anglo-Viking (Danish East Anglia). St. Edmund memorial coinage. Circa 895-918. AR Penny (20mm, 1.35 g, 12h). Mint in East Anglia (Ipswich?); Adalbert (or Æthelbeorht), moneyer. Large A; quatrefoils of pellets flanking / + ΛOΛLBERT NEDΛIE, short cross pattée. BMC 149; North 483; SCBC 960. Richly toned, slight double struck on obverse. VF.
Ex Raymond Gardner (Spink 265, 10 December 2019), lot 36.
The BMC catalog notes for this entry, "It is impossible to say what these letters were designed to represent."