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Auction: 14006 - Ancient, British and Foreign Coins and Commemorative Medals
Lot: 93

Wessex, Aethelred I (865/6-71), Penny, 0.72g, lunettes coinage, Canterbury, Wulfeard, diademed bust with bonnet right, rex+aeÐelred, rev. dmo / wlfear / neta, n and e ligate, reverse type A (Lyons and MacKay Aethelred I group 2.i, Corpus Ae2.118; N.622; S.1055), the metal appearing somewhat water worn, small perforation at 10 o' clock, otherwise an unusually full and pleasing flan for this, about very fine, this moneyer extremely rare, perhaps the third known

provenance:
Found nr. Horncastle, Lincolnshire, 2014
Recorded with the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. EMC 2014.0130

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Estimate
£800 to £1,000