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Auction: 15004 - Ancient, British and Foreign Coins and Commemorative Medals
Lot: 520

East Anglia, Aethelstan (c.827-c.45), Penny, 0.87g, East Anglian mint, probably Ipswich, Monna, portrait phase c.827-c.830, diademed and draped bust right, eÐelstan re around rev. +mon / mone / ta in three lines with pellets dispersed throughout field (Naismith E31.1 var - reads RE; N.437; S.949), in excavated condition with extensive edge loss and subsequent flan stress, generally nearly very fine, a cheaper example of a rare East Anglian portrait piece

provenance
Found near Eye, Suffolk, August 2012
Recorded with the Portable Antiquities Scheme, British Museum,
ref. SF-BE4435
Recorded with the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, EMC 2013.0093

This appears to be a new obverse variant for the type. It can be distinguished by the contraction of REX to RE, pelleted diadem, trefoil of pellets in front of bust, solid break to legend by bust and a heavy bar to the nose


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£650