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Auction: 14004 - Ancient, British and Foreign Coins and Commemorative Medals
Lot: 1349

East Anglia, Aethelstan I (c.825-40), Penny, 1.22g, Aethelhelm, cross pattée, pellet in angles within inner circle, aeÐelstn rex., rev. aeÐelhelm mo, cross pattée, pellet in angles within inner circle (Naismith E42.5 - different dies; N.446/2; S.951), minor edge split at 5 o'clock, almost extremely fine, extremely rare

provenance
Found at Marbury, Whitchurch, Cheshire
Recorded with the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, EMC 2013.0357

Naismith lists two examples of this coin, one in the British Museum and another from a late nineteenth century sale, the current whereabouts of which is unknown.

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Sold for
£3,000