434, Lot: 568. Estimate $200. Sold for $475. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of Wessex. Edward the Elder. 899-924. AR Penny (22mm, 1.62 g, 12h). Circumscription cross/Horizontal-Trefoil 1 (HT1) type (BMC ii). Mercia North-East dies (Stamford?); Pitit, moneyer. Late II period, circa 920-924. Small cross pattée / PITIT MONE in two lines; three crosses pattée between, trefoils above and below. CTCE 246; SCBI 26 (East Anglia), 161; North 649; SCBC 1087. Fine, deeply toned, much find patina remaining.

From the Londinium Collection.