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Auction: 19007 - Coins and Commemorative Medals: Winter Auction
Lot: 37

Wessex, Ecgberht (802-839), Penny, 'Saxoniorum' type, West-Saxon mint (Winchester ?), Eanweald, 1.23g, 9h, + ecgbeorht rex, sax|oino|rvm in three lines, in transposed, rev. cross eanþald moieta (Naismith W6d this coin; PAS: WILT-29EE75 this coin; CEB [1955], 29; N.590; BMC XX; S.1041), split and ragged edge, otherwise very fine, very rare

provenance
The Raymond Gardner Collection
SNC, March 2010, HS4025 - 'otherwise VF and extremely rare' - £1,950
Found Salisbury, Wiltshire, March 2008

For further reading, see: 'The Coinage of Ecgbeorht: 802-839', by C E Blunt, BNJ, 1955, pp. 467-76

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Sold for
£950

Starting price
£800