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Auction: 18011 - The Williams Collection of Anglo-Saxon, Viking and Norman Coins - Part I
Lot: 63

(x) Kings of All England, Aethelstan (924/5-939), Penny, 1.605g, 3h, Crowned Bust type, Norwich, Hrothgar, + æÐelstan rex, crowned and draped bust right breaking solid inner circle, rev. + hrodgar mo norpic, around small cross patteé in solid inner circle (SCBI 30 (America), 337 this coin; same obverse die as SCBI 34 (British Museum) 143 = BMC 74; N.675; S.1095), surface lightly scratched by forehead, otherwise good very fine, very rare

provenance:
Norweb, part 3, Spink auction 56, 19 November 1986, lot 785
Purchased from Spink, April 1969
From an old European hoard dispersed via J Schulman, Amsterdam

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£3,500