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Auction: 18011 - The Williams Collection of Anglo-Saxon, Viking and Norman Coins - Part I
Lot: 34

(x) Mercia, Beornwulf (823-825), Penny, 1.43g, 12h, East Anglian mint, Eadnoth, +beornÞvlf rex, legend begins at 6 o'clock, bare head right, the stylised truncation breaking inner circle, rev. + e dno monet, around plain inner circle containing cross-crosslet (Naismith E23.c this coin; N.397; S.929), extremely fine, very rare

provenance:
Linzalone, Stack's, 7 December 1994, lot 2337
Lockett, part VII, Glendinning, 4-6 November 1958, lot 2663, 'in beautiful state and excessively rare', £175 to Spink
Rashleigh, Sotheby, 28 June - 1 July 1909, lot 55, 'only specimen known of this moneyer'.
Murchison, Sotheby, 28-30 May 1866, lot 96
Dymock, Sotheby, 1-4 June 1858, lot 64, £41 to Cureton
Joseph Barratt collection dispersed anonymously
Rich, Sotheby, 7-9 July 1828, lot 15, £8.10/6 to Young (for Barratt)
Dimsdale, Sotheby, 6-22 July 1824, lot 210, £10.15/- to Rich
Rodwell, Sotheby, 27 November 1821, lot 84, £11.0.6d to Dimsdale
Engleheart, Sotheby, 11 April 1820, lot 44, £11.11/- to Rodwell
From the Dorking, Surrey, hoard, 1817

The Spink library copy of the Dimsdale catalogue has the following note against lot 210 'From the Dorking find. Bought by Mr Engleheart of a coachman.' (see also H Pagan, The Engleheart parcel of coins from the 1817 Dorking hoard, BNJ vol.68, 1998, pp. 141-142)


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