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Auction: 18011 - The Williams Collection of Anglo-Saxon, Viking and Norman Coins - Part I
Lot: 33

(x) Mercia, Ceolwulf I (821-823), Penny, 1.33g, 9h, portrait type (c.810-821), East Anglian mint (Ipswich?), Wodel, + ceolvvlf - rex m, diademed and draped bust right of finer style, breaking solid inner circle, rev. ·:· pod / del mo / neta, in three lines, divided by lines with crook at each end (BNJ 32 (1963), 32e this coin; Naismith E20.2e this coin; N.392; S.927), a full round coin, tiny edge split at 3 o'clock, otherwise extremely fine, extremely rare

provenance:
Bruun Rasmussen, auction 764, 11 December 2006, lot 5413
Bagnall, collection sold to Spink
Grantley, Glendining, 22-23 March 1944, lot 856
Montagu, part 1, Sotheby, 18-23 November 1895, lot 264
Brice, collection purchased by Montagu, 1887
Wigan, collection purchased by Rollin and Feuardent, 1872
Cuff, Sotheby, June - July 1854, lot 320

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£15,000