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Auction: 23004 - Ancient and British Coins - Featuring the 'White Rose' Collection
Lot: 394

Wessex, Alfred (871-899), Third Coinage, 'Two Line (Guthrum)' Type, Penny, struck 880-899, Canterbury, Beornweald, + AFIFPF + PE + D-ORO, lozenge Os, [ÆLFRED REX DORO], small cross pattée, rev. BHRIN | AD MO lozenge Os, in two lines, divided by pellet, 1.40g [21.6grns], 10h (BMC nos. 4 and 50; North 638; BMC XVII; Spink 1069), small metal flaw to the reverse edge at 3 o'clock, yet with pleasingly darkly toned fields, subtle crimping, otherwise good very fine, with comparables to be seen in the famous Cuerdale and Morley St. Peter hoards

Provenance

SNC, March 1996, no. 706 - "darkly toned, good very fine, rare" - £650

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Starting price
£700