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Auction: 15005 - Ancient, British and Foreign Coins and Commemorative Medals
Lot: 374

Eadred (946-955), Penny, 1.45g, Two line type (HT1), Otic, cross pattée within inner circle, +eadred rex around, rev. otic / mon¯e, divided by three cross pattée, trefoils above and below (CTCE p.139, No 56; N.706; S.1113), central bend with some cracking and metal stress along bend, c.50% peripheral flan loss, good metal quality and a well struck example, good very fine

The deliberate bending of this piece may well be a contemporary measure to test the metal quality of the coin. This is a known Anglo-Saxon method of metal testing as distinct from the Scandinavian practice of peck marking. c.f. M Blackburn, Expansion and control: aspects of Anglo-Scandinavian minting south of the Humber, note No 15, in 'Viking coinage and currency in the British Isles', p.140.

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