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Auction: 19007 - Coins and Commemorative Medals: Winter Auction
Lot: 42

Wessex, Edward the Elder (899-924), Penny, horizontal type, Winchester [?], Rægenald, 1.60g, 10h, + eadweard rex, small cross pattée, rev. rægen|ald mo divided by row of cross pattée (CTCE 247, albeit this coin not listed; O'Donovan [1964], no. 313, this coin; BM 314; N.649; S.1087), struck with rusty dies, otherwise attractively toned, good very fine and thought unique to commerce

provenance
The Raymond Gardner Collection
SNC, December 1998, no. 7277 - 'some toning, good VF' - £350; formerly listed in: December 1996 (5940); March 1995 (957); March 1994 (1011); and October 1993 (7123)
R C Lockett, Glendining, English IV, 26-27 April 1960, lot 3677 [part] - £7.10.0 (Baldwin)
Glendining, 13 November 1930, lot 96 (part) - £3.0.0 - 'RÆGENALD (two), unpublished' [Baldwin]. Spink acquired one of these coins from Baldwin for the British Museum (no. 314), the other evidently was sold to Lockett
Vatican, 'Rome' Hoard, deposited c. 928


The Vatican find of 517 Anglo-Saxon silver Pennies was made about the year 1928, reputedly whilst construction work was ongoing at the Vatican Wireless Station. No formal catalogue of the hoard was made before the trove was dispersed in two sales via Glendining in May 1929 and November 1930. George Cyril Brooke annotated catalogues now held in the British Museum, providing the weights latterly used by O'Donovan in his work for the BNJ. His article confirms the presence of two previously unpublished coins at the time of sale, the first with a reported weight of 23.9 grains [c 1.54g] untraced at the point of publication, and the second acquired by British Museum (no. 314). From the form of the moneyer's name as RÆGENALD MO [as opposed to hyphenating to indicate line breaks] it is probable that O'Donovan had noted the Lockett sale in 1960 but simply overlooked this detail by time of publication.


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Sold for
£950

Starting price
£700

Sale 19007 Notices
Note regarding Provenance. Please disregard report from Lockett and prior. That coin is to be found in SCBI (Lyons), no. 665. This is the third recorded example for type.