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Auction: 23004 - Ancient and British Coins - Featuring the 'White Rose' Collection
Lot: 393

Wessex, Æthelberht (858-865/66), 'Inscribed Cross', Penny, Hunbeorht, + ÆÐELBEARHT REX, draped bust right, rev. + HVNBEARHT MO inscribed on limbs of beaded cross, N E T A in angles, 1.08g [16.6grns], 12h (Ruding Pl. 15, no. 1; SCBI 67 [BM], 1273 [Dorking Hoard]; Montagu [1888], lot 32; G J Bascom [1914], lot 57 = H C Miller [1920-, lot 62 = Lockett IV, 3627; SCMB, June 1973, H3607; North 620; Spink 1053), flan loss between 1 and 3 o'clock and other daylight spots to flan with a pastille-grey tone, otherwise on a fuller flan and devices pleasingly struck up, near extremely fine thus, a very scarce moneyer for this type represented in the Dorking Hoard

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S&B, FPL 1995, E196 - £475

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