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Auction 14007  17-18 December 2014
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Lot 481

Estimate: 1800 GBP
Price realized: 1800 GBP
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East Anglia, Aethelstan (c.827-c.45), Penny, 1.27g, East Anglian mint, probably Ipswich, Eadgar, portrait phase c.827-c.830, diademed and draped bust right, e–elstan re around, legend terminating in four triangular wedges, rev. +eadgar mone around beaded inner circle, cross pattÈe within, pellets dispersed in legend (Naismith E29.1/29.2; N.438/5; S.948), a detector find thus small chip below bust, otherwise a superb example of this rare coinage, good very fine, an unrecorded die combination for Aethelstan of East Anglia's portrait phase.
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