411, Lot: 703. Estimate $300. Sold for $500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of All England. Eadgar. 959-975. AR Penny (21mm, 1.29 g, 4h). Horizontal-Rosette 2 (HR 2) type (BMC Id). Chester mint; Iorøthr, moneyer. Struck circa 963-967. EΛDGΛR REX, small cross pattée / EOR/OÐ M in two lines; cross pattée flanked by annulets between, rosette above and below. CTCE 141; SCBI 34 (BM), 1197 (same dies); North 745; SCBC 1131. VF, toned, edge chips, some verdigris. Rare.

Ex Baldwin’s 101 (28 September 2016), lot 3024.