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Auction: 18011 - The Williams Collection of Anglo-Saxon, Viking and Norman Coins - Part I
Lot: 42

(x) East Anglia, Aethelstan I (c.825-845), Penny, 1.3g, 3h, portrait type, 1.3g, 9h, Eadgar, :eÞelstan re:, legend starts at 6 o'clock, diademed and draped bust right breaking inner circle, rev. + ea / .dg.ar mone / .t.. in four lines (Naismith E29.1a this coin; SCBI Norweb 106 this coin; N.438; S.949), extremely fine, very rare

provenance:
Linzalone, Stack's, 7 December 1994, lot 2342
Norweb, part 1, Spink auction 45, 13 June 1985, lot 30
Bagnall, collection purchased by Spink in 1964
Lockett, part VII Glendining, 4-6 November 1958, lot 2671, 'in a beautiful state and excessively rare with bust', £200
Bascom, Sotheby, 4 June 1914, lot 25
Rashleigh, Sotheby, 21 June 1909, lot 110
Cuff, Sotheby, 8 June 1854, lot 349, 'extremely rare', £17.10/- to Rashleigh
Rich, Sotheby, 7-9 July 1828, lot 21
Naismith comments 'probably Suffolk hoard.'

This coin is accurately illustrated in both Ruding, Annals of the Coinage of Britain, plate C, no. 3 and Hawkins, Silver Coins of England, pl. XIV, no. 190.




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