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Auction: 1009 - Ancient, English & Foreign Coins, Commemorative Medals & Numismatic Books
Lot: 13

Wessex, Eadmund, Penny, 1.20g, HT 1 North Eastern, York, Ingelgar, small cross pattée within inner circle, +ea.dmvnd rex b, group of six pellets after e, rev. ingel/garmo divided by three crosses in a row, three pellets above and below (SCBI 34/372- BMC, same dies; N.688; S.1105), edge loss, cracks, fine, scarce Estimate £ 200-300 provenance Found at Rothersthorpe, Northants, in 2009 Ingelgar was a York moneyer who worked for the Hiberno-Norse kings of York, Anlaf Quaran and Eric Bloodaxe. He also worked for the Wessex king Eadred as well as Eadmund. His career as a moneyer neatly reflects the struggle for control of York in the 940s between the Norse Vikings and the kings of Wessex. SCBI/EMC lists 16 coins of Ingelgar for Eadmund.

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