271, Lot: 187. Estimate $5000. Sold for $14000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of Kent. Ecgberht. Circa 780. AR Penny (17mm, 0.97 g, 7h). Caentwarabyrig (Canterbury) mint; Udd, moneyer. + ÆGCBERHT, Rx monogram / : VDD : between two beaded bars; above and below, small cross pattée, with pellet in each angle and within floral scroll. Chick 87f (this coin); SCBI 1 (Cambridge), 428 (same dies); BMC 1 (same dies); North 200 (same dies as illustration); SCBC 874. EMC 2001.0779 (this coin). VF, toned, minor edge split. Extremely rare.

Property of Princeton Economics acquired by Martin Armstrong. Ex Lawrence R. Stack Collection (Sotheby’s London 9443, 22 April 1999), lot 245; C. J. Firth Collection; Gilbert Creswick Drabble Collection, lot 340; Possibly found at Stamford Hill, Middlesex, 1906, along with SCBI 1, 428; includes three collector’s tickets which may add further to this pedigree.