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Auction: 15005 - Ancient, British and Foreign Coins and Commemorative Medals
Lot: 373

Wessex, Alfred the Great (871-99), Penny, 1.05g, lunettes coinage, 871-76/77, Mercian group, London dies, Dudd, Burgred 'vertical' style bust right, +elfred mx-+, rev. mon / +dvdd / eta, lunettes type A, trefoil of pellets at periphery of both lunettes (Lyons and MacKay group II, var V, Corpus AfL2.22; N.625; S.1057A), the metal appearing somewhat pitted and base, very mild curvature of flan, generally full and readable, nearly very fine, the Mercian dies of Alfred very rare

provenance:
Found Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, February 2015
Recorded with the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, EMC 2015.0175

Lyons and Mackay, p.62, note that Dudd was a prolific moneyer for Aethelred I of Wessex at Canterbury yet he is only known for Mercian style dies under Alfred. This interchange of Wessex and Mercian moneyers, however, was not uncommon during this period

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