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Auction: 18011 - The Williams Collection of Anglo-Saxon, Viking and Norman Coins - Part I
Lot: 64

(x) Kings of All England, Aethelstan (924/5-939), Penny, 1.47g, 12h, Northumbrian issue, York, Wyltsig, +xx aedlstan rem, around small cross within solid inner circle, rev. tower above a straight horizontal line dividing the field, annulets to left and right, pvlisig, retrograde, below (SCBI 16 (Norweb) no. 153 this coin; N.683; S.1100), extremely fine, with an attractive old tone, very rare

provenance:
Spink auction 81, 19 November 1990, lot 71
Norweb, part IV, Spink auction 59, 17 June 1987, lot 1191
Lockett, part I, Glendining, 6-9 June 1955, lot 556 'in beautiful condition and very rare', £50 to Spink
Reynolds, Sotheby, 4 May 1914, lot 56



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