Auction: 15005 - Ancient, British and Foreign Coins and Commemorative Medals
Lot: 337
Aethelred II (978-1016), Penny, 1.66g, Second hand type, Winchester, Toki, diademed and draped bust right, sceptre before rev. +toca m-o pinto, Hand of Providence issuing from billowing cloud dividing alpha and omega, (Harvey, Plate 10, No 239a - this coin; SCBI 20 Mack, No 849 - this coin; N.768; S.1146), struck from rusty dies and with small area of delamination behind bust, the centres well struck on this, very fine, the reverse better
provenance:
Bt. R P Mack collection Pt. II, Glendining, 23 March 1977, lot 109 (illustrated), £65 (Mack ticket included)
Recorded with the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, EMC 1020.0849
Purchased by Mack, September 1953
N D Campbell, 15th Duke of Argyll, collection purchased by Spink, 1949
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Sold for
£380
