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Auction: 11024 - Ancient, English & Foreign Coins and Commemorative Medals
Lot: 9

Archbishops of Canterbury, Wulfred, Penny, 1.41g, large facing portrait type (group III), Canterbury, Swefherd, facing tonsured bust to edge, legend starting at 12 o´clock, +vvlfred archiepi, contraction mark over last i, rev. Dorobernia civitas monogram, +svvefnerd moneta, uncial m in moneta (Naismith C47.2r - this coin; N.240/1; S.889), full coin, well struck and a superb example of this issue, extremely fine, very rare Estimate £ 3,500-4,500 provenance Bt. Spink 2008 Baldwin auction, 12 December 1998, lot 1632 BNJ Coin Register, 1998, 111 Found Waldershare Park, Dover, Kent, March 1998 Recorded with the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, EMC 1999.0020

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£5,500