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Auction: 18011 - The Williams Collection of Anglo-Saxon, Viking and Norman Coins - Part I
Lot: 36

(x) Mercia, Wiglaf (second reign 830-840), Penny, 1.32g, 11h, London, Raedmund, + vviglaf rexm, around beaded circle containing a cross with pellet in each angle, rev. d / +redma / h, in three lines, the d and h in pelleted lunettes above and below (cf. Naismith L29.1 this coin not listed but see L29.1c same dies; N.401/1; S.934), two slight edge chips, a little buckled and with some surface cracks both sides, otherwise good very fine, extremely rare

provenance:
Spink auction 119, 4 March 1997, lot 79
Found near Thame, Oxfordshire, March 1996

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