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Auction: 18012 - The Williams Collection Part II, Anglo-Saxon and Viking Coins
Lot: 141

(x) Aethelstan (924/5-939), Penny, 1.45g, no mint name, Aethelfreth, + æÐelstn rex, legend begins at 8 o'clock, crowned and draped bust right breaking solid inner circle, rev. + æÐelfreÐ mon, small cross patée in soild inner circle (Blunt 310, and plate XIII = BMC 145 = SCBI (British Museum) 165 same dies; SCBI 18 (Norweb) 158 this coin; N.673; S.1094), about extremely fine, rare

provenance:
Glendining, 8 September 1993, lot 424
Norweb, part 1, Spink auction 45, 13 June 1985, lot 59, 'about extremely fine, very rare', £1,500
Lockett, part 1, Glendining, 6-9 June 1955, lot 558, 'extremely fine and rare', £17 to Spink

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Sold for
£5,800