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Auction: 14007 - Ancient, British and Foreign Coins and Commemorative Medals
Lot: 483

Wessex, Ecgberht (802-839), Penny, 1.42g, West Saxon mint at Winchester, Wihtnoth, Saxon monogram within inner pelleted circle, +ecgbeorht rex, rev. +vvihtnoÐ moe, cross pattée within pelleted inner circle (Naismith W12; N.589; S.1041), a field find but in a superb state of preservation, perfectly centred and problem-free, extremely fine and excessively rare in such condition

provenance
Found near Warminster, Wiltshire, August 2014
Recorded with the Portable Antiquities Scheme, British Museum,
ref. WILT-32A8B3

This is only the fourth specimen of moneyer Wihtnoth to be recorded for this type. Naismith only records a single fragmentary specimen which appeared in SNC September-October 1919. Therefore, all subsequent examples have appeared since 2011 of which this is the best preserved.

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