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Auction: 18012 - The Williams Collection Part II, Anglo-Saxon and Viking Coins
Lot: 280

(x) Anglo-Scandinavian coinage (c.995-1020), Penny, 0.87g, 'Long Cross' type with bust left in the name of Cnut (BEH B), 'Shrewsbury, Aelfheh', cnvt rex anglox, the ng ligate, rev. + aelf heh mo scro, voided long cross (Malmer 202.1102, chain 133; see BNJ XXX (1960-61), p.242, group 4, chain G, CN 3118), trace of double striking, almost very fine, six specimens listed

provenance:
'Viking' collection, Spink auction 150, 14 March 2001, lot 1177
Norweb, part 4, Spink auction 59, 17 June 1987, lot 1242
Lockett, part X, Glendining, 26 April 1960, lot 3749
Wheeler, portion of collection purchased by Seaby in 1930
Roth, part 2, Sotheby, 14-17 October 1918, lot 80,

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