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Auction: 15005 - Ancient, British and Foreign Coins and Commemorative Medals
Lot: 339

Aethelred II (978-1016), Penny, 1.39g, Small crux type, London, Eadwine, stylised, draped bust left, sceptre before, inclined to bust, small, neat lettering, rev. +edpine m-o lvnd, voided short cross, a letter of crvx in angles, pellets in first and third quarters (SCBI 20 Mack, No 908 - this coin; N.770; S.1149), pecks, small peripheral striking crack at 1 o'clock, mostly tidy and with old tone, very fine, these Small crux pieces struck on a smaller module flan than the regular Crux issue

provenance:
Bt. R P Mack collection Pt. II, Glendining, 23 March 1977, lot 141 (illustrated), £100 (Mack ticket included)
Recorded with the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, EMC 1020.0908
Purchased Baldwin's, October 23 1968


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