Triton XXII, Lot: 1371. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of Wessex. Æthelstan. 924-939. AR Penny (23mm, 1.61 g, 5h). Small cross/Horizontal-Trefoil 1 (HT 1) type (BMC i). North Western dies; Eadmund, moneyer. + ÆÐELSTΛN RE+, small cross pattée / EΛDM/VND in two lines; three crosses pattée between, trefoils above and below. Blunt, Aethelstan 46; SCBI I (Fitzwilliam), 570 (same dies); SCBI 34 (BM), 14-5 var. (rev. legend); North 668/1; SCBC 1089. EF, toned.