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Auction: 18012 - The Williams Collection Part II, Anglo-Saxon and Viking Coins
Lot: 163

(x) Aethelred II (978-1016), Penny, 1.49g, Long Cross type, Gloucester, Leofsige, æÐelræd rex anglo, the ng ligate, legend begins at 7 o'clock, draped bust left, no inner circle, bust breaks legend, rev. + leo fsig em'o glea, voided long cross (SCBI 19 (Gloucester) 36 same dies; N.774; S.1151), peck marks, good fine

provenance:
Purchased from Baldwin, July 1994
Spink Numismatic Circular, March 1990, no. 953
Doubleday, Glendining, 6 October 1987, lot 140 (part)

SCBI 19 notes 'an anomolous obverse die, possibly Hiberno-Norse.'

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