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Auction: 15005 - Ancient, British and Foreign Coins and Commemorative Medals
Lot: 323

Wessex, Aethelred I (865/6-71), Penny, 1.20g, Lunettes coinage, Wessex regular group, Canterbury dies, Torhtmund, bust right breaking legend and inner circle, prominent nose and tidy style, +aeÐelred rex, rev. nd mo / torhtmv / neta within and between type A lunettes, trefoil of pellets above m of mo (Lyons and MacKay group II, var I - unlisted in corpus; N.622a; S.1055), small areas of rust-like deposit but a superb, lustrous and problem-free piece with a pleasing old collection tone, extremely fine, Aethelred I one of the harder kings of Wessex to source

provenance:
Bt. Spink, March 1975, £475

Torthmund appears to be unlisted by Lyons and Mackay for Group II, variant I (c.f. table 12, p.86) though the reverse appears to be a die link with reverse die a of variant II, (c.f. Ae2.115). This piece may, therefore, be classed as a Group II, variant I/II mule. There are just two specimens listed for Torthmund in Group II, both variant II.

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Sold for
£6,000