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Auction: 19004 - Coins and Commemorative Medals: Spring Auction
Lot: 50

Eadwig (955-959), Penny, horizontal type, North Eastern variant, York, Heriger, 1.47g, small cross pattée, rev. herig | er mo in two lines divided by a line of crosses pattée (N.724; BMC I; S.1122), spots of red wax in recesses, a bold very fine, one of seventy seven coins of Eadwig recovered from the Tetney find

provenance
Clonterbrook Trust, Glendining, 7 June 1974, lot 42 - £240 (Miller)
Patrick Finn who operated the commission bid on behalf of Dr Miller at the sale commented afterwards: "I'm so glad that you are pleased with the coin and I do think it was fairly reasonable after all."
Lockett, part X, Glendining, 26-27 April 1960, lot 3704 (part) - £44.0.0
Tetney hoard, deposited c. AD 963.

The Tetney Hoard of 394 mid-10th Century Saxon silver Pennies was discovered by farmer Morris Walter Houlden in May 1945. A later account of the hoard noted that it was stored in a chalk receptacle with remnants of cloth afixed to some of the hoard further indicating the original method by which it was hidden.

John Speed, the noted 17th Century cartographer and historian utilised the coin collection of Sir Robert Cotton to illustrate the lives of Kings and Queens in his "Historie of Great Britaine" reprinted in 1632. For the reign of Eadwig, Speed elected to illustrate a similar coin to the present example by the moneyer Heriger (cf. pp. 403).

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Sold for
£2,400