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Auction: 18011 - The Williams Collection of Anglo-Saxon, Viking and Norman Coins - Part I
Lot: 35

(x) Mercia, Ludica (825-827), Penny, 1.19g, 6h, East Anglian mint, Werbald, + lvdica rex me, legend begins at 9 o'clock, diademed bust right, the beaded inner circle following the shape of the plain square truncation, rev. per bald mone in three lines (Naismith E28.b; N.398; S.931), small edge chip and a little buckled, otherwise very fine and of the highest rarity

provenance:
Spink auction 106, 12 October 1994, lot 385
Found at Bradenham, near Dereham, Norfolk, June 1994 (EMC 1993.0183)

This coin is listed by Naismith as type E28b, with the only other example being the coin in the Hunterian which is listed as E28a. This is due to the similarity of obverse legends and the virtually identical reverse type. When it comes to the portraits however, while the heads are similar, the draped bust of the Hunterian coin is very different to the square undraped truncation of this piece, and so they are not really the same type.

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£30,000