324, Lot: 634. Estimate $200. Sold for $300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of Northumbria. Æthelred II. First or second reign, 841-843/4 and 843/4-849/50. Æ Styca (12mm, 1.28 g, 6h). Phase II, Group Ai. York mint; Leofdegn, moneyer. +EDELRED REX, six-pointed star within linear circle / +LEOFDEGИ, cross pattée with pellets in angles, within linear circle. Pirie 193 (same dies); North 188; SCBC 866. VF. Rare.

From the Peter Moffat Collection.