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Auction: 18011 - The Williams Collection of Anglo-Saxon, Viking and Norman Coins - Part I
Lot: 70

(x) Kings of All England, Eadgar (959-975), Penny, 1.31g, 12h, Bedford, Forthgar, + eadgar rex, legend begins at 9 o'clock, crowned and draped bust right, breaking solid inner circle, rev. + fordgar moneta be, around small cross in solid inner circle (CTCE 346 this coin; SCBI 30 (American), 389 same dies; SCBI 2 (Glasgow), 710 same obverse die; N.751; S.1139), good very fine, very rare, this moneyer not represented in the British Museum in this very rare type

provenance:
Noble Numismatics auction 50, 21 March 1996, lot 2538
Norweb, part 4, Spink auction 59, 17 June 1987, lot 1198
Lockett, part 1, 6-9 June 1955, lot 628, £44 to Spink
Carlyon-Britton (noot in sale)
Astronomer, Sotheby, 11-12 June 1906, lot 196
Montagu, part 1, Sotheby, 18-23 November 1895, lot 711, £4.12/- to Money
Marsham, Sotheby, 19 November 1888, lot 187

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Sold for
£10,000