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Auction: 14005 - Ancient, British and Foreign Coins and Commemorative Medals
Lot: 528

Wessex, Eadred (946-955), Penny, 1.50g, exceptional types, unrecorded floral type, south eastern mint, Burhelm, symetrical floral device with berries within inner circle, +eadred rex, rev. bvrh/elm mo in two lines, divided by a small cross pattée between two anchors (CTCE pl.25, 154(i); cf N.736 (Edwig); cf SCBI (BM) 34, 856 (Eadwig); S.-), marks in upper and lower portions of the reverse consistent with the coin having been fixed to a mount in Saxon times, extremely fine, extremely rare, the only known example of this type and a new moneyer for Eadred

The exceptional  ornate design is only recorded for three coins, two struck for king Eadwig, who succeeded Eadred in 955, and now for this coin of Eadred. The moneyer, Burhelm, occurs for Eadred’s predecessor and this is the only known coin by him in the name of Eadred. In Saxon times the coin was attached to a brooch or another object from which it became detached and lost until found a few years ago.

provenance
Found c.1998, Thaxted, Essex, UK finds data base ref. ESS-897E67
Recorded with the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, EMC 2014.007



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