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Auction: 15005 - Ancient, British and Foreign Coins and Commemorative Medals
Lot: 325

Wessex, Alfred the Great (871-899), Penny 1.49g, Third coinage, 880-99, Two line 'Guthrum' type, Mercian dies, Cuthwulf, cross pattée with pellet centre within inner circle +el fr ed re around, rev. cvÐ / vvlf in two lines, pellet in centre of field with trefoils at the periphery (SCBI 9 Ashmolean, No 257 - same dies N.637; S.1066), small area of weakness to reverse periphery, mostly well-struck with some underlying lustre, toned, good very fine

provenance:
Bt. Spink, December 1974, £400 (ticket by May Sinclair)

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Sold for
£2,200