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Auction: 1010 - Ancient, English & Foreign Coins, Commemorative Medals & Numismatic Books
Lot: 7

Wessex, Alfred the Great (871-899), Lunettes coinage, 871-876/7, Penny, 0.83g, Canterbury, Tidbearht, diademed and helmeted bust right, re++aelbred:, rev. lunettes A, .htmo./tidbear/.eta. (Lyons and MacKay, BNJ 2008, group 1, var. I; N.625; S.1057), dark patination, edge loss in places, otherwise very fine / good very fine, rare Estimate £ 1,000-1,200 Lyons and MacKay in BNJ 2008, pp. 84-106, listed a corpus of 197 known coins of the Lunettes coinage of Alfred with one example by Tidbearht and one other known but not seen. This is a third example for this moneyer. All Tidbearht Lunettes coins are from Wessex Canterbury style dies.

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£1,200