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Auction: 23004 - Ancient and British Coins - Featuring the 'White Rose' Collection
Lot: 395

Wessex, Alfred the Great (871-899), 'London Monogram' Penny, 886, "Upon the Retaking of London", ÆLFR EDRE, X place in field, draped and diademed bust right, rev. LONDONIA Monogram, cross pattée above, quatrefoil of pellets below, 1.37g [21.0grns], 12h ("The London Monogram Coinage of Alfred the Great and the Danelaw" (BNJ, 2019), pp. 1-107 = MacKay dies, O7/R13, no. 11 this coin; BMC 94; North 644; Spink 1061), an unfortunate planchet clip behind bust between 8 and 10 o'clock, otherwise with a pleasing dark cabinet tone with a touch of iridescence in recesses, near extremely fine, one of thirteen examples recorded from these dies in MacKay's extensive corpus

Provenance

Glendining, 16 April 1997, lot 124 - £615

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Sold for
£4,500

Starting price
£2500