Triton XXII, Lot: 1370. Estimate $750. Sold for $1000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of Wessex. Edward the Elder. 899-924. AR Penny (23mm, 1.39 g, 8h). Circumscription cross/Horizontal-Trefoil 1 (HT 1) type (BMC ii). Mercia West dies; Eadred, moneyer. Late period II, struck circa 920-924. X EΛDVVEΛRD RE+, small cross pattée / EΛDE•/RM M–O in two lines; three crosses pattée between, trefoils above and below. CTCE 166; SCBI –; BMC 34 var. (rev. legend); North 649; SCBC 1087. EF.