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Auction: 18011 - The Williams Collection of Anglo-Saxon, Viking and Norman Coins - Part I
Lot: 6

(x) Kent, anonymous coinage, regal issues (c.822-823), Penny, 1.43g, 12h, Canterbury, Swefherd, 'Coelwulf head' type, + svvefherd moneta, diademed head right within solid inner circle, rev. doro / bernia / civita / s, in four lines, cross between two pellets above (BLS 5a this coin; SCBI 30 (America), 216 this coin; Naismith C55.1a this coin; N.221.1; S.878), tiny chip on edge at 1 o'clock, old cabinet toning and a spot of red wax on the obverse, extremely fine

provenance:
Dresser, Stack's, 4 May 1995, lot 2173
Lord Grantley, part 3, Glendining, 22-23 March 1944, lot 896 (illustrated), purchased by Seaby for £15 - with Seaby ticket
Montagu, part 1, Sotheby, 18-23 November 1895, lot 312
Marsham, Sotheby, 19 November 1888, lot 120
EMC 1030.0216

This issue belongs to the period between the rejection by Kent of the Mercian Ceolwulf I and the installation of Baldred as king. Ceolwulf I was crowned by Archbishop Wulfred probably in late 822 and Baldred seems to have become king by 824, suggesting this anonymous regal issue belongs to a very short period of about a year in 822/23.

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Sold for
£5,000