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Auction: 18012 - The Williams Collection Part II, Anglo-Saxon and Viking Coins
Lot: 135

(x) Wessex, Alfred (871-899), Penny, 1.50g, 9h, Portrait / London Monogram type, London, aelf - red rex, diademed and draped bust right, no inner circle, the small x below letter e at end of legend, rev. London monogram, cross pattée above and diamond of four pellets below (cf. BMC. 94; SCBI 30 (American) 303 same dies; N.644; S.1061), slightly wavy flan, peck marks on reverse, good very fine

provenance:
Purchased from Baldwin, November 1991

This coin has come from Baldwin without a provenance. The small x below the e on the obverse is a distinctive feature which is sometimes noted in old catalogues and so might help in this respect.

Several other coins from these dies have been noted. One in Oman (lot 25), is from the same dies but was recently sold in Spink auction 246 (lot 94), and so cannot be this coin. Another, in SCBI 30 (American) 303, is also from the same dies, but was most recently sold in CNG Triton auction VII (lot 1247), and so also cannot be this coin. A third, in Carlyon-Britton, part 1 (lot 341), is illustrated, and again, though it is from the same dies, is clearly a different coin. And yet another example from the same dies, Thomas Bliss (lot 74), is also illustrated and again is not this coin. There was an unillustrated example in Lord Grantley part 3 (lot 1005), but in the Spink library copy it is noted 'cracked' and so again it cannot be this coin.
Montagu also had an example (part 1, lot 518), from the Brice collection. It was not illustrated in the sale catalogue, and was described as fine and rare.

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Sold for
£19,000