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Auction: 14004 - Ancient, British and Foreign Coins and Commemorative Medals
Lot: 1352

Wessex, Aethelstan (924-39), Penny, 1.24g, with portrait, north eastern types, var.II, Bese, coarse helmeted bust right, +aeÐelstan rex, rev. + bese moneta, cross crosslet within inner circle (N.686; S.1104), full flan, good very fine, a new moneyer for this type, very rare

provenance
Found river Thames foreshore, Battersea, 1983
Recorded with the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, EMC 2013.0358

The moneyer Bese is known for Eadmund and Eadred, but this is the first known example of him for Aethelstan.

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Sold for
£5,800