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Auction: 14006 - Ancient, British and Foreign Coins and Commemorative Medals
Lot: 143

Aethelred II (978-1016), Penny, 1.34g, last small cross type, Thetford, Waelgist, diademed bust left, rev. +pelgist mon Ðeod, cross pattée within inner circle, four hand-cut crosses in field (N.779; S.1154), light surface crack at 6 o'clock on reverse, pecks, very fine, very rare, a sought after variant and particularly interesting with the reverse crosses being hand-cut into the die

provenance
Glendining, 14 March 1973, lot 24 (£130), described as a 'Polish find'


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Estimate
£500 to £700

Sale 14006 Notices
Replacement provenance as follows, ex. Captain Peter Arnott, Buckland, Dix & Wood, 21 March 1995, lot 182. Not Glendining, 14 March 1973, lot 24.