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Auction: 18011 - The Williams Collection of Anglo-Saxon, Viking and Norman Coins - Part I
Lot: 1

(x) Kent, Ecgberht (c.765-780), Penny, 1.26g, 12h, Canterbury, Udd, egcberht around solid inner circle containing rx, rev. vdd between two beaded lines, cross with ornaments above and below (CEB 4; Chick 87c this coin; SCBI 2 (Glasgow) 383 same reverse die; N.200; S.874), a neatly struck full round coin of good metal, extremely fine, very rare

provenance:
Spink auction 129, 17 November 1998, lot 133
Aiskew hoard, Bedale, North Yorkshire, found April 1977
Barclay, Numismatic Chronicle, vol. 157, 1997, no. 12

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£5,500