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Auction: 18011 - The Williams Collection of Anglo-Saxon, Viking and Norman Coins - Part I
Lot: 3

(x) Kent, Eadberht Praen (796-798), Penny, 1.32g, 12h, Canterbury, Duda, eadberht rex, legend ends at 6 o'clock, around inner circle containing Mercian m, rev. dv / da / m+ with numerous pellets in angles of two-lined tribrach moline (Naismith C10a this coin; N.206.1; S.875A), a very neat full round coin of good metal, extremely fine, extremely rare, only two examples listed in Naismith, and this by a long way the better of the two

provenance:
Purchased from Patrick Finn, March 1997
From Dereck Chick
Found near Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, August 1996

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Sold for
£12,000