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Auction: 18011 - The Williams Collection of Anglo-Saxon, Viking and Norman Coins - Part I
Lot: 71

(x) Kings of All England, Eadgar (959-975), Halfpenny, 0.55g, 12h, ead+gar re, legend begins at 8 o'clock, around simple head right, no inner circle, bust decorated with row of pellets, rev. Londinia monogram, cross above, pyramid of six pellets below (SCBI 34 (British Museum) 1172 = CTCE pl 25 no. 394 same dies; N.753; S.1140B), extremely fine, extremely rare

provenance:
Purchased from Spink, December 1991

'Another case of harking back, this time to the coinage of Alfred, is provided by a unique halfpenny (type f, pl.25, no.394), from the same (Chester 1950) hoard which has as obverse type a crowned head and as reverse type the London monogram familiar from Alfred's coinage. There is no inner circle on the obverse, and the legend, which begins at 8 o'clock, is curiously broken at 12 o'clock by what would normally be an initial cross: eadg+arre. (Blunt, Stewart & Lyon, Coins of Tenth Century England, p.204)

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Sold for
£9,500