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Auction: 15005 - Ancient, British and Foreign Coins and Commemorative Medals
Lot: 329

Aethelstan (924-939), Penny, 1.62g, Bust crowned type, with mint signature, London, Aelfstan, crowned and draped bust right within inner circle, +aeÐelstan rex around, rev. +aelfstan mo lond civi, small cross pattée within inner circle (BNJ XLII Blunt, No 268; N.675; S.1095), old scratches to bust but detracting little from this most pleasing piece, full and centred with an even old collection tone, nearly extremely fine and certainly with appeal

provenance:
Bt. Spink, March 1975, £1,150

The obverse inner circle is noteworthy in continuing uninterrupted through the king's bust and forming a neck line for the drapery

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