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Auction: 18011 - The Williams Collection of Anglo-Saxon, Viking and Norman Coins - Part I
Lot: 4

(x) Kent, Cuthred (798-807), Penny, 1.084g, 12h, cross and wedges type, Canterbury, Werheard, + cvÐred rex - cant, legend begins at 10 o'clock, diademed and draped bust right breaking inner circle, rev. + verheardi moneta around solid inner circle containing cross pommée with wedges in angles (Naismith C.35.1h this coin; BLS 22, and same dies as pl ii, = BMC 9 and = SCBI 67 (British Museum) 694; SCBI 16 (Norweb) 82 this coin; N.211; S.877), an attractive and expressive portrait, about very fine, very rare

provenance:
Spink Australia auction 27, 2 March 1989, lot 1238
Norweb, part 1, Spink auction 45, 13 June 1985, lot 17
Purchased from Spink, November 1957
EMC 1016.0082

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