Triton XX, Lot: 1526. Estimate $15000. Sold for $42500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of Wessex. Alfred the Great. 871-899. AR Penny (20mm, 1.38 g, 5h). Cross-and-Lozenge type (BMC v). Winchester style; Heahstan, moneyer. Struck circa 875-880. + ÆLFRE D REXS Λ, diademed bust right / HEΛ HSTΛ N MO (NE)TΛ, cross pattée within lozenge over long beaded cross; crossbars at lozenge ends. Blackburn & Keynes 46 = SCBI 9 (Ashmolean), 247 (same dies); BMC –; EMC 2016.0034 (this coin); North 629; SCBC 1058. EF, toned. Well struck with an elegant portrait. Very rare.

Found near Alfriston, East Sussex, September 2015.