CNG 87, Lot: 2075. Estimate $1500. Sold for $1550. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of Wessex. Edward the Elder. 899-924. AR Penny (20mm, 1.59 g, 3h). Horizontal (HP1) type (BMC ii). Wessex dies; Æthelred, moneyer. Early II period, circa 903-910. +EADVVEARD REX, small cross pattée / ÆÐER/ED MO+ in two lines; +++ between, pellet above and below. CTCE 64ii; SCBI 6 (Edinburgh), 83; cf. BMC 13; North 649; SCBC 1087. VF, toned.

From the TJH Collection.