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Auction: 21050 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coins - Part II : Northumbria
Lot: 511

Northumbria, Æthelred II (c. 841-843-849/50), Styca, Phase IIa, 'Special Motifs', Leofthegn, +EDELRED REX, a simplified christogram [?], rev. +LEOFDEJN, retrograde N, central motif (S1b/2c), 1.19g. 270° (SCBI Hunterian, 211-212 = SCBI Fitzwilliam, 320 same dies; SCBI 69, 979 this coin; North 188; Spink 866A), some minor spots of verdigris otherwise a remarkably bold and well-struck specimen, almost extremely fine, rare in this condition

provenance
J Booth, January 2016
I Blowers, Glendining, 21-22 November 1974, lot 743
~ Found at Bolton Percy (North Yorkshire), 1967 ~


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£550

Starting price
£220