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Auction: 18012 - The Williams Collection Part II, Anglo-Saxon and Viking Coins
Lot: 239

(x) Hiberno-Norse Vikings of York, Eric Blood-Axe (second reign, 952-954), Penny, 1.28g, Sword type, York, Ingelgar, eric . / rex . in two lines, triple-pellets above and below, right-facing sword and triple-pellets between, rev. + ingelg·a·rio, small cross patté in inner circle (N.550; S.1030), light grey tone, edge chips at 4, 9 and 10 o'clock, does not detract from this extremely rare and desireable coin, only the third Sword type Penny of Eric Blood-Axe to be offered in the last sixty years

provenance:
Purchased from Baldwin, May 1992

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Sold for
£25,000