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Auction: 15004 - Ancient, British and Foreign Coins and Commemorative Medals
Lot: 449

Aethelstan (924-39), Penny, 1.49g, 'Church' type, York, Frotier, +aedlstan rex, trefoil of wedges after regnal title, cross pattée within inner circle, crescent and pellet in field, rev. fr / ot / ierm / mon in three lines, the first divided by depiction of Anglo-Saxon church or tower, ground line below, no additional symbols in field (Blunt BNJ Vol.XLII, No 441; CTCE p.295; N.683; S.1100), unfortunate edge chip at 4 o'clock otherwise a particularly well struck piece with the original surface of the dies still visible in the fields, extremely fine

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