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Auction: 16019 - The Academic Collection of Lord Stewartby: English Coins part 1, Anglo-Saxon and Norman Coins
Lot: 220

Aethelred II (978-1016), Penny, 1.45g, First Hand type, Southampton, Æthelman, diademed bust right, rev. ÆĐELMAN M-O HAMPI•, Hand of Providence issuing from clouds dividing A W (N766; S1144), a few surface marks and slightly soft centres, otherwise almost very fine, very rare.

PROVENANCE:
W C Wells, collection purchased by Baldwin 1949
F Elmore Jones, Glendining 12-13 May 1971, lot 743
Bt Baldwin 2004

Only one coin of this moneyer listed in Hildebrand

provenance:
Purchased by Baldwin's at the Elmore Jones sale for £85
(ticket by Peter Mitchell)
F Elmore Jones, Glendining, 12-13 May 1971, lot 743
W C Wells collection, purchased by Baldwin's after 1949

William Charles Wells is the author of ‘The Northampton and Southampton mints’ published in BNJ in four parts throughout the 1920s and early 30s. An update on this seminal work on the mints was published by Dolley in SNC April 1955, p.159-62. The footnote for this coin in the Elmore Jones sale reads; 'Very fine and excessively rare, only one coin of this moneyer listed in Hildebrand; ex Wells'.

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