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Auction: 11008 - Ancient, British & Foreign Coins & Com Medals
Lot: 26

Eadgar (959-75), Penny, 1.56g, circumscription cross type, Chester, Aelfsig, small cross pattée within inner circle, conjoined crescents in field above, +eadgar rex to bri, rev. +aelfsig mo in lec (SCBI 16/167 - this coin; N.749; S.1135), slight creasing, toned, about extremely fine, rare moneyer for Chester Estimate £ 1,500-1,800 provenance Norweb part I, Spink auction 45, 13 June 1985, lot 65 VM Brand collection PWP Carlyon Britton, 17 November 1913, lot 452 F Maclean (´Astronomer´), Sotheby 11-13 June 1906, lot 192 (part) H Montagu, Sotheby, 23 November 1895, lot 713 Rev. EJ Shepherd, Sotheby, 22 July 1885, lot 99 (part)

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