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Auction: 23004 - Ancient and British Coins - Featuring the 'White Rose' Collection
Lot: 402

Eadred (946-955), Penny, Sperling, + EADRED REX, diademed and draped bust right, with oval eye, rev. + SBERELNC + NONI [SPERELINC MONE], small cross pattée, 1.31g [20.0grns], 6h (cf. SCBI 34 [BM], 713; Lockett 3703 = Clonterbrook 41 ['a very rare moneyer']; North 713; Spink 1115), flat in parts and the portrait softly struck on hair, otherwise on a pleasingly round flan with a light tone, about very fine, very rare with only two others traced by this cataloguer

Provenance

SNC, March 1997, HS760* - £600

CNG 38, 6-7 June 1996, lot 1749 - "good very fine, a weak strike"

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Sold for
£2,000

Starting price
£550