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Auction: 18011 - The Williams Collection of Anglo-Saxon, Viking and Norman Coins - Part I
Lot: 10

(x) Archbishops of Canterbury, Wulfred (805-832), Penny, 1.34g, 6h, anonymous group I (c.805-810), + vvlfredi archiepiscopi, tonsured and draped bust facing, within solid inner circle, rev. + doroverniae civtatis (sic) around solid inner circle containing cross crosslet (Naismith C36.1c this coin but the error spelling civtatis not noted; N.235; S.887), an attractive sharply struck coin with an arresting depiction of the Archbishop, darkly toned, extremely fine, very rare

provenance:
Sotheby, 25 April 1996, lot 731
Christie's, 28 February 1989, lot 200, illustrated on the cover of the catalogue, £7,150
Found at Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire, 1987, EMC 2001.0992

At the time of its discovery this was only the second cross crosslet coin of Archbishop Wulfred recorded, the other being in the British Museum (see The Coinage of Southern England by Blunt, Lyon & Stewart in BNJ XXXIII pp. 1-74, the B.M. coin noted on P.69). Naismith records five other examples. This example is the only one to have the error spelling civtatis on the reverse.

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Sold for
£18,000