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Auction: 18011 - The Williams Collection of Anglo-Saxon, Viking and Norman Coins - Part I
Lot: 32

(x) Mercia, Coenwulf (796-821), Penny, 1.26g, 12h, large portrait type (c.800-821), East Anglian mint (Ipswich?), Wodel, + coenvvlf - rex m, lozenge shaped O, diademed and draped bust right breaking inner circle, stylised chevron shaped drapery, rev. po / d / e / l, lozenge shaped O, in angles of beaded cross with annulets in beaded circles at centre and at each point (Naismith E13.1a this coin; N.369; S.920), some small spots of black deposit on both sides, one or two scuffs but about extremely fine, very rare

provenance:
De Witt, Künker auction 137, 14 March 2008, lot 3039
Norweb, part 4, Spink auction 59, 17 June 1987, lot 1178
Lockett, part VII, Glendining, 4 November 1958, lot 2656
Roth, part II, Sotheby, 14 October 1918, lot 65
Crowther, Sotheby, 10 November 1904, lot 5
Montagu, part 1, Sotheby, 18-23 November 1895, lot 249
Brice, collection purchased by Montagu, 1887
Bergne, Sotheby, 20 May 1873, lot 64
Rev. Christmas, Sotheby, 1 February 1864, lot 27

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