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Auction 270  9 Mar 2023
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Lot 2054

Estimate: 4000 GBP
Price realized: 7500 GBP
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English Hammered Coins

Eadmund (939-946), Penny, Crowned Bust type [BMC iv], uncertain mint (probably in East Anglia), Klakkr, eadmvnd re, crowned and draped bust right breaking inner circle, rev. clac mone mone around small cross pattée, 1.41g/12h (CTCE 263(c), this coin; Blunt 4.6, this coin; N 697; S 1106). With a bust of attractive, fluid style, extremely fine and extremely rare £4,000-£5,000

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Provenance: W. Brice Collection
H. Montagu Collection, Part I, Sotheby Auction, 18-23 November 1895, lot 649
F. McClean Collection, Sotheby Auction, 13-19 June 1906, lot 180
R.C. Lockett Collection, Part IV, Glendining Auction, 26-7 April 1960, lot 3697
Dr B. Bird Collection, Glendining Auction, 20 November 1974, lot 106
E. Norweb Collection, Part I, Spink Auction 45, 13 June 1985, lot 62
J. Linzalone Collection, Stack's Auction, 7 December 1994, lot 2326
bt Spink 1997

This coin shares its obverse die with a coin in the Reading Collection (SCBI 11, 52) signed by the moneyer Winide, and piece from the Chester hoard (SCBI 34, 480) signed by Bruninc.
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