Great Britain Silver & Bronze

Sale 78    5–8 Apr 2005   Hotel InterContinental   Sydney

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Lot 692    Session 3 (2.30pm Tuesday)    Great Britain Silver & Bronze

Estimate $1,600
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $1,000

COENWULF, King of Mercia (796-821), silver penny, Group I, uncertain London or Canterbury mint, no portrait type, obv. name around central M, COENVVLF REX, rev. EA // M // A, tribrach moline, (Moneyer Eama), (S.914, N.342, Blunt Lyon & Stewart, 15 [BNJ Vol.32]). Toned, slightly chipped about half of the edge, good very fine and very rare.

Ex Spink NUmismatic Circular, March 1990 (No. 944 and listed at Å“900) and previously from a find at Torksey c.March 1989.

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