Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 1758. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON. Kings of All England. Aethelred II. 978-1016. AR Penny (1.26 gm, 9h). Second hand type, circa 985-991. London mint; Leofstan, moneyer. +ÆDELRÆD REX ANGLbX, diademed bust right; sceptre surmounted by cross pommée before / +LEOFSTAN M-O LVND, manus Dei extending down from clouds between A W; two pellets in field. SCBI 7 (Copenhagen), 879; BMC 207; North 768; SCBC 1146. VF, dark toning, flan crack, light scratches. ($300)

From the Robert Schonwalter Collection. Ex Knobloch Collection (Stacks/Coin Galleries, 12 November, 1986), lot 1013.