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Auction 14007  17-18 December 2014
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Lot 480

Estimate: 3000 GBP
Price realized: 5500 GBP
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East Anglia, Eadwald, (c.796-98/800), Penny, 1.40g, East Anglian mint, probably Ipswich, Wihtred, king's name in three lines, pelleted bar dividing rex / +eadva / dl, l reversed, dispersed pellets in field, rev. ui / ht / re / d in angles of cross fourchÈe with lozenge containing cross of pellets at centre, all surrounded by a tressure with pelleted cusps (Naismith E4b - same dies; N.433; S.947), a field find, small peripheral flan knock at 8 o' clock, excessively rare unchipped and so full of flan, good very fine, a very rare issue of this virtually unknown East Anglian king.
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