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Auction: 19004 - Coins and Commemorative Medals: Spring Auction
Lot: 57

Aethelred II (978-1016), Penny, Dover, Godwine, 1.69g, + æðelræd rex anglo, diademed and draped bust left, rev. + g•odþine m'o dofe, voided long cross (SCBI [Ashmolean] IX, 518 same dies; N.774; BMC IVa; S.1151), toned, peripheral striking softness otherwise very fine, a scarce mint

provenance
Purchased, Baldwin, 19 February 1980 - "VF" - £95
Horace H King collection
Duke of Argyll, collection purchased en bloc by Spink, 1949 (with his tickets) indicating, purchased Seaby, £0.13.6
"Cost a former owner 16/6d at Lincoln's"

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Sold for
£300