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410, Lot: 539. Estimate $300.
Sold for $700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of Wessex. Æthelberht. 858-865/6. AR Penny (21mm, 0.93 g, 1h). Inscribed Cross type (BMC i). Canterbury mint; Wynbeorht, moneyer. Struck circa 858-864. + ΛEÐELBEΛR(HT) REX, diademed and draped bust right / + VV(NB)EΛ/R(HT) MO/N E T Λ in and around arms of beaded cross. Naismith C210b (this coin); SCBI 67 (BM), 1296 (same rev. die); North 620; SCBC 1053. Fine, deeply toned, cracked and repaired with associated edge chips. Rare moneyer.


Ex York Coins inventory (June 2010); Bonhams 19 (28 March 2006), lot 85.