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Auction: 18011 - The Williams Collection of Anglo-Saxon, Viking and Norman Coins - Part I
Lot: 57

(x) Wessex, Alfred (871-899), Halfpenny, 0.56g, 3h, two Line (Guthrum) type, Canterbury, Buee, + ernv doroe, the v an upside down a, the os lozenge shaped, around small cross patteé, rev. bve e(mn)o in two lines, again the v an upside down a and the o lozenge shaped, the mn are ligate, (N.640; S.1068; see the discussion by Hawkins, Numismatic Chronicle, vol. V, pl. III, 29), good very fine, very rare

provenance:
Purchased from Spink, August 1992
Grantley, part 3, Glendining, 22-23 March 1944, lot 1025, illustrated, 'very fine and extremely rare', £21 to Baldwin
Murdoch, part 1, Sotheby, 31 March - 4 April 1903, lot 93, illustrated, 'extremely fine and excessively rare', £15 to Rollin & Feuardent
Montagu, part 1, Sotheby, 18-23 November 1895, lot 516
Shepherd, Sotheby, 22 July 1885, lot 76
Murchison, Sotheby, 28-30 May 1866, lot 215

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Sold for
£7,000