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Auction: 12027 - Ancient, English & Foreign Coins and Commemorative Medals
Lot: 54

Wessex, Alfred the Great (871-99), third coinage, c.880-899, Penny, 1.59g, London monogram type, c.880-83, diademed bust right, unbroken legend around, aelfred rex, letters l and f inverted, rev. londonia monogram, cross of five pellets above and below (SCBI 1 (Fitzwilliam), 545 - same obverse die; North 644; S.1061), good very fine, very rare with obverse legend unbroken by bust

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