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Auction: 15005 - Ancient, British and Foreign Coins and Commemorative Medals
Lot: 382

Aethelred II (978-1016), Penny, 1.32g, Last small cross type, Chester, Alcsige, diademed bust left, rev. +alcsige on leic, cross pattée within inner circle (SCBI 5 Chester, No 161 var - rev. legend; N.777; S.1154), a couple of pecks in reverse field and the slightest bit off-centre, generally well struck with a pleasing portrait, toned, good very fine

This bust is almost definitely the prototype used for the Last small cross imitations of Sihtric Anlafsson. It may even be that a Chester piece was used as links are known to exist between the Chester and Dublin mints during this period. Indeed Chester is one of the mint signatures known to have been imitated in the type at Dublin

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