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Auction: 18011 - The Williams Collection of Anglo-Saxon, Viking and Norman Coins - Part I
Lot: 15

(x) Archbishops of Canterbury, Plegmund (890-923), Penny, 1.64g, 9h, group II (c.905-923), Horizontal type, Eicmund, + plegmvnd rchiep, legend begins at 11 o'clock, around small cross pattée, rev. eicmv / nd mo, in two lines divided by three small crosses, trefoils of pellets above and below (CTCE P5i this coin; N.256; S.900), a full round coin with attractive old tone typical of the Vatican hoard, good very fine

provenance:
Purchased from Baldwin, September 1991
Lockett, part X, Glendining, 26-27 April 1960, lot 3561
Vatican Hoard (M A O'Donovan, BNJ XXXIII (1964), pp 7-29, no. 9 this coin)

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Sold for
£3,500