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Auction: 18011 - The Williams Collection of Anglo-Saxon, Viking and Norman Coins - Part I
Lot: 27

(x) Mercia, Coenwulf (796-821), Penny, 1.35g, 3h, portrait type (c.810-821), Rochester, Ealhstan, +coenvvl - f res m, l upside down and s retrograde (for x), crude draped bust right breaking inner circle, rev. ealhztan moneta around plain inner circle containing cross moline with pellet in each angle (Naismith R2.2b this coin; N.348; S.917), flan slightly buckled and with outer circle crack at 1 o'clock and other tiny perforations along the creases, otherwise very fine

provenance:
Baldwin, auction 18, 13 October 1998, lot 1642
Christie's, 26 February 1991, lot 496
Found at Little Kimble, Bucks, Spring 1990
EMC 1989.0076 (n.b. finds in early 1990 are recorded in the 1989 listing)

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£1,700