358, Lot: 529. Estimate $750. Sold for $550. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of Wessex. Edward the Elder. 899-924. AR Penny (22mm, 1.45 g, 3h). Local imitation of Circumscription cross/Horizontal-Trefoil 1 (HT 1) type (BMC ii). + EAD(OV)VEA REX, small cross pattée / Retrograde PΘLED/EIΘDF in two lines; three crosses pattée between, trefoil above and below, both flanked by pellets. SCBI –; BMC –; cf. North 649; cf. SCBC 1087. Good VF, toned, weak strike on reverse.