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Auction: 18004 - Ancient, British and Foreign Coins and Commemorative Medals
Lot: 298

Aethelstan (924-39), Penny, Norwich, Manne, 1.51g, aedelstan rex, crowned and draped bust right, rev. manne mo nordpc, small cross pattée in centre (N.675; S.1095), a remarkable example, well-centred, and with superior portrait detail, save only for a small blemish by hair, about as struck, very rare thus

provenance
Found Stoke Holy Cross, Norfolk, April 2017
Recorded with the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, ref. EMC 2017.0139

EMC records indicate this to be only the second example of its type currently recorded for the mint of Norwich

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£5,000