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Auction: 23004 - Ancient and British Coins - Featuring the 'White Rose' Collection
Lot: 396

Wessex, Edward the Elder (899-924), 'Exceptional Issues', North Western Mints, 'Tower' Type, Penny, Wulfsige, + EADVVEARD REX, small cross pattée, rev. Anglo-Saxon burh in the style of a Roman Camp Gate, dividing VV-LF | SI-GE over two lines, 1.70g [26.0grns], 12h (Ruding, Pl. 16, no. 17; G D Lumb, "Edward the Elder Pennies with the Facade of a Building", BNJ 20 (1929-1930), pp. 27-29 this coin referenced; CTCE 324e this coin, cf. Pl. 4, no. 21; North 666; Spink 1083), lightly crimped, nevertheless the Tower and legends uniformly struck, on a neat round flan, very fine / good very fine, extremely rare with only seven examples recorded, this with an exemplary nigh-two century long unbroken pedigree

Provenance

SNC, October 1986, no. 6653* - 'very rare, obverse rather weak, probably from a rusty die, otherwise, very fine' - £2,750 [via M. Trenerry, 1986 - £1,400]

W J Noble, Glendining, 11-12 December 1975, lot 390* - 'about very fine and very rare'

R C Lockett, Part III, Glendining, 4-6 November 1958, lot 2719*

A Mann, Sotheby's, 30 October 1917, lot 156*

E K Burstal, Sotheby's, 6 November 1912, lot 53*

W Allen, Sotheby's, 14 March 1898, lot 219

Capt R M Murchison, Sotheby's, 28 May 1866, lot 241 - 'fine and rare' - £2.9.0

Rev. J W Martin, Sotheby's, 23 May 1859, lot 20 - 'extremely rare and fine' - £3.3.0 [Webster for Murchison]

T Dimsdale, Sotheby's, 6-22 July 1824, lot 608 - 'highly preserved and rare' - £6.0.0 [A. Edmonds for Martin]



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