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Auction: 16019 - The Academic Collection of Lord Stewartby: English Coins part 1, Anglo-Saxon and Norman Coins
Lot: 214

Edward the Martyr (975-78), Penny, 1.36g. London, Aedestan, diademed bust left, rev. +ÆDESTAN M-O LVN. (N.763; S.1142), signs of die rust on reverse, even grey tone, very fine, rare

Lord Stewartby notes ‘Probably the specimen found at Reculver in the eighteenth century’

It has only been possible to trace one other Martyr penny of Aethelstan at London; Coin register 1988, No 167. There is no prictorial record of this coin and so a line drawing from Stowe MS 1049, fol. 26, no. 20 is shown.

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