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Auction: 13014 - Indian, Islamic, British and Anglo-Gallic Coins and Commemorative Medals
Lot: 97

Danelaw, East Anglia, Penny, 1.37g, St Eadmund memorial type, blundered, middle phase, Haming, a within inner circle, +sc eeaditiviimi, rev. +iiemicx rex e, cross pattée within inner circle (N.483; S.960), good very fine, a very rare moneyer signature

provenance
M. Rasmussen, list 14, Winter 2007/08, 5

The reverse inscription has been thought by some to read heming rex (See P.W.P. Carlyon-Britton and Blunt )

A similar coin was sold in the 1916 Carlyon Britton sale with the following note appearing in the catalogue;'

'The reverse of BMC 428 [a similar coin in the British Museum] is thought by some numismatists to give the name of an unknown king, possibly a Dane. It would in this sense read heming rex e. The name Hemming occurs more than once among Danish leaders on the Continent at a somewhat earlier and again at a somewhat later date than this.'

The blundered nature of the legends on this coin makes it impossible to prove this suggestion. It is more likely the reverse inscription gives the name of a moneyer rather than a ruler, but the use of rex in this remains intriguing.

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Sold for
£580