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Auction: 24004 - British and World Coins and Medals Spring Auction
Lot: 23

(x) Æthelred II ‘Unræd’ (978-1016), ‘Long Cross’ Type, Penny, 997-1003, Canterbury, Leofstan, +ÆÐELRÆD REX ANGLO, NG ligated, bare-headed and draped bust left, hair with seventeen strands, pellet behind neck, five horizontal folds to drapery, no inner circle or sceptre, rev. +LEOFSTAN M'O CÆNT, voided long cross with pellet in centre and triple crescent ends, 1.66g [25.6grns], 6h (Hildebrand 223, Type D [a.5 variety]; SCBI 7 [Copenhagen Part II], 88 same dies, [and 89 no die link]; SCBI 9 [Oxford Part I], 517 no die link; SCBI 25 [Helsinki], 180 same dies, [and 181 same reverse die]; SCBI 36 [Berlin], 341 no die link and 342 same reverse die; SCBI 37 [Poland], 70 no die link; SCBI 50 [Hermitage Part I], 629-630 same dies, [and 631-633 no die links]; SCBI 51 [Estonia], 145 no die link; SCBI 65 [Norwegian Part I], 547-549 no die links, [and 550-551 both same dies]; North 774; BMC IVa [Coll. no. 30]; Spink 1151), lightly pecked and crimped, otherwise richer cabinet tone, a most pleasingly bold very fine

Provenance

The Steve J Green Collection of Anglo-Saxon Coins [with his tickets and envelope]

Allan Williams, Part IV, Spink 259, 29 January 2019, lot 525 - £190

Baldwins, by private treaty, July 1994

G V Doubleday, Glendining, 6 October 1987 - lot 60 (part) - ...dark, very fine


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Sold for
£280

Starting price
£120