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Auction: 16019 - The Academic Collection of Lord Stewartby: English Coins part 1, Anglo-Saxon and Norman Coins
Lot: 58

Northumbria, joint issues of the Kings and the Archbishops of York, Alchred (c.758-66) with Ecgberht (732/4-758), Sceatta, 0.87g., + ALRHIIDE, retrograde, small cross, rev. +[.]CGBERHT A, small cross (Abr. Y600; N.193; S.853), chipped, 70% complete, otherwise about very fine, extremely rare

PROVENANCE
C.J. Firth, Spink auction 1, 11 October 1978, 89
Lord Grantley II, Glendining, 27-28 January 1944, 798
E.W. Rashleigh, Sotheby, 28 June-1 July 1909, 131
Ex Dymock

With old collection tickets.

First published by Rashleigh in 1869 (NC, illustrated pl. i, I), where it was attributed to Aethelwald Moll. This attribution was followed by Grantley. C.S.S. Lyon, in a 1956 reappraisal of the Sceatta and Styca coinage of Northumbria in the BNJ proposed that Alchred was a more likely attribution. This attribution is now widely accepted.

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Sold for
£800