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Auction: 18011 - The Williams Collection of Anglo-Saxon, Viking and Norman Coins - Part I
Lot: 53

(x) Wessex, Aethelred I (865/6-871), Penny, 1.23g, 9h, Lunettes type, Canterbury, Herebeald, + aeÐelred - rex, legend begins at 9 o'clock, diademed and draped bust, with bonnet, right breaking solid inner circle, rev. herebea in one line between lunettes containing ldmo above and neta below, he and ne ligate (cf. BMC 8; cf. Lyons & MacKay Ae2.75 and Ae2.76; N.622; S.1055), tiny spots of verdigris, good very fine / very fine, very rare, only two other coins by this moneyer listed by Lyons & MacKay

provenance:
Purchased from M Roberts, 20 May 1991

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£6,500