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Auction: 18011 - The Williams Collection of Anglo-Saxon, Viking and Norman Coins - Part I
Lot: 12

(x) Archbishops of Canterbury, Ceolnoth (833-870), Penny, 1.21g, 6h, anonymous, + ceolnod - rhiepi, tonsured and draped bust facing, breaking inner circle, rev. + doroverni around inner circle containing cross with ci / vi / t / s in angles (Naismith C132a this coin; SCBI 20 (Mack) 665 this coin; N.243; S.894), slight edge clip at 6 o'clock, some small spots of verdigris and a spot of red wax on the obverse, old cabinet toning, about extremely fine, extremely rare

provenance:
Mack collection (with his ticket)
Lockett, Glendining, 26-27 April 1960, lot 3556
Evans, collection purchased by Spink, many later sold to R C Lockett (with his ticket)
Montagu, Sotheby, 18-23 November 1895, lot 314
Brice, collection purchased by Montagu, 1887
Bergne, Sotheby, 20 May 1873, lot 116
Murchison, Sotheby, 28-30 May 1866, lot 149
Dymock, Sotheby, 1-4 June 1858, lot 44
Cuff, Sotheby, June - July 1854, lot 397, 'very fine, found at Dorking'
Dorking, Surrey, hoard, 1817

Only three examples of this rare type are listed by Naismith. The second, which shares the obverse die with this coin, is in the British Museum, and the third is 'cracked and poor'.

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Sold for
£7,000