Great Britain Silver & Bronze Coins

Sale 134    20–24 Nov 2023   Dixson Room, State Library of NSW   Sydney

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Lot 1390    SESSION 7 (9.30AM WEDNESDAY 22ND NOV)    Great Britain Silver & Bronze Coins

Estimate $1,500
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $2,000

KINGS OF EAST ANGLIA, Eadmund, (855-869 A.D.), silver penny, Alpha Cross Pattee type, Ipswich Mint?, moneyer Eadwald, issued 862-869, (0.99 g), obv. thick inner circle (8.5 mm) containing A (Alpha) with macron above, no pellet either side, plain cross before legend +EADMVND REX around which begins at 12 o'clock, N reverse barred, rev. plain cross, large pellets in angles, within thick inner oval (9 mm), plain cross followed by legend +EAD_HN MohET around, _ (W) retrograde, (S.954, N.456/1, BMC 41). Toned, oval flan with some edge losses, clear legends good fine and rare.

Ex S.J.Green Collection. Purchased Spink Auction 18006 Lot # 1570 (26 September 2018). Nicholas Rhodes Collection, purchased 1950. With collector's tickets.
Naismith E66.1 (this coin is not listed but cf. E66.1w), CSE Volume 2, Page 390-393.

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