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Auction: 11008 - Ancient, British & Foreign Coins & Com Medals
Lot: 24

Wessex, Edward the Elder (899-924), Penny, 1.48g, North West Mercian mint, Walter, small cross pattée within inner circle, +eadvveard rex, rev. pa/lt/er/eo, Anglo-Saxon Burh or reliquary in form of a building dividing moneyers name (SCBI 20/766 – this coin; same dies as SCBI 6/107; N.666; S.1283), edge loss between 10 and 4 o´clock, nearly very fine / good very fine, very rare Estimate £ 2,500-3,500 provenance Spink auction 20, 31 March 1982, lot 60 Mack Collection – see SCBI 20/766 Chester, St. John´s Church find, 1862, no. 83 in inventory Four other examples of this type by this moneyer are known. Three are in public collections (two in Edinburgh and one in the British Museum) and the fourth (EMC 2003.0162) was found in 2003.

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