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Auction: 17029 - British and Foreign Coins and Commemorative Medals
Lot: 97

Kingdom of Wessex, Edmund (939-946), Penny, horizontal-rosette type 1, Chester, Maerten, 1.40g, small cross pattée, rev. mert-enei in two lines, rosette above and below (N.691; BMC I; S.1105), ragged edges with hints of cabinet toning in recesses, additional trace evidence of an earlier 'horizontal type' host coin having been overstruck, about very fine

provenance
Bt. Seaby, 1974, £125

notes
Whilst some uncertainty remains over the attribution of Maerten(e) to Chester, Blunt (BNJ XLII, 1974) identifies a moneyer of the same name operating from here during the reign of his predecessor Aethelstan. Similarly, he has noted other instances of overstriking occurring as a regular practice at this mint.

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Sold for
£480