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CNG 97, Lot: 1000. Estimate $3000.
Sold for $3750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Anglo-Viking (Danish East Anglia). Imitations of Alfred the Great. Circa 885-915. AR Penny (18.5mm, 1.26 g, 11h). Horizontal (Two-Line) type. Mint in East Anglia (Ipswich?); Cyneferth, moneyer. + EF FR ED EE (first F inverted), small cross pattée / CE(NE) FERR in two lines (the second retrograde, with last letter inverted); • • • between, pellet above and below. SCBI –; BMC –; North 475/1; SCBC 966. Superb EF, light gray toning with slight golden hues. Well struck from fresh dies.


From the Collection of an Underwriter. Ex Triton XI (8 January 2008), lot 1649.