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Auction: 15005 - Ancient, British and Foreign Coins and Commemorative Medals
Lot: 336

Aethelred II (978-1016), Penny, 1.67g, First hand type, Ipswich, Waltferth, diademed and draped bust right, rev. +paltferÐ m-o gip.:, hand issuing from cloud dividing alpha and omega, the sleeve tightly arranged (Sadler; SCBI 42 Southeastern, No 806; Thompson, No 199; N.766; S.1144), weakly struck in centres and with some die clogging, deeply toned as is characteristic for the Buttermarket hoard pieces, a pleasingly round flan, good very fine

provenance:
Bt. Seaby, December 1974, £110 (ticket by Robert Sharman)
Ipswich Buttermarket hoard, discovered 24th October 1863

John Evans, writing in the 1864 Numismatic Chronicle, notes that out of the c. 500 coins found in the Buttermarket hoard just 100-120 '...were in anything like a good state of preservation'. The coins were '...mostly in such a state of oxidisation as to break at the slightest touch'. Coins from this hoard can generally be recognised by the deep toning which can sometimes appear dappled. They were probably subject to high temperatures as a result of fire. Evans lists six examples of this reverse die in the hoard, c.f. p29.

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Sold for
£280