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Auction: 18011 - The Williams Collection of Anglo-Saxon, Viking and Norman Coins - Part I
Lot: 28

(x) Mercia, Coenwulf (796-821), Penny, 1.286g, 6h, large portrait type (c.810-822/23), Canterbury, Swefherd, + coenvvlf rex m, legend begins at 7 o'clock, diademed and draped bust right breaking solid inner circle, rev. + svvefherd moneta around solid inner circle containing cross fourchée with pellet in each angle (Naismith C43c this coin; N.353; S.916), some dark colour on the obverse, even tone on the reverse, good very fine, very rare

provenance:
Spink Australia, auction 27, 2 March 1989, lot 1240
Norweb, Spink auction 45, 13 June 1985, lot 24
R P Mack, private sale to Spink
Lockett, Glendining, 6-9 June 1955, lot 373
Found at Blandford, Dorset before 1915 (Inventory 125)

It is interesting to see that the grade of this coin was given as extremely fine in the Lockett catalogue in 1955 and very fine in the Norweb catalogue in 1985.

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£4,000