324, Lot: 637. Estimate $100. Sold for $240. 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, 1.18 g, 5h). Phase II, Group Ai. York mint; Odilo, moneyer. +EDELRED REX, five pellets / +ODILOMO, pellet-in-annulet. Pirie p. 101 note a = Pirie, Newcastle 310 (same dies); North 188; SCBC 865. Good VF, some green deposits.

From the Peter Moffat Collection. Ex R.P. Mack Collection (Part II, Glendining, 23 March 1977), lot 44; 1833 Hexham Hoard.

The Hexham hoard was originally published by John Adamson in two articles in Archaeologia vols. XXV (1834) and XXVI (1836), both reprinted in Archaeologia Aeliana vol. III, pt. II (1840).