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Auction: 23005 - The "Haddenham" Collection of English Coins
Lot: 149

The 'Haddenham' Collection of English Coins | Danish East Anglia (c. 885-915), 'St Edmund Memorial Coinage', Penny, in the name of Pope Adrian III [?], c. 17 May 884 - 8 July 885, Ersalt, + CDRENI DANAC ["To Adrian from the Danes"], commencing at 5 o'clock, capital A and pellets, rev. + ERSALT MON, recumbent S, commencing at 1 o'clock, small cross pattée, [Spink XRF: 94.34% Ag; 3.34% Cu; 1.19% Au; 0.763% Pb; 0.36% Fe], 1.47g [22.69grns], 11h (SCBI 1 [Fitzwilliam], 470-471 same obverse die; SCBI 4 [Copenhagen], 141 same obverse die; SCBI 9 [Ashmolean], 101 same dies; SCBI 17 [Midland], 101 same obverse die; SCMB 488, January 1949, X17 = BNS, 29 May 1949, p. 105, no. 1 = SCBI 26 [East Anglia], 1105 same dies; SCBI 48 [Northern], 736 [Cuerdale Hoard] same dies; Oldknow 4061 same dies; North 483; BMC 402; Spink 960), flan slightly waved with peripheral striking softness, otherwise pleasantly cabinet toned, a bolder very fine, these dies recorded in the Cuerdale Hoard, where this coin probably originated

Provenance

'IF', by private treaty, 2001 - £170

Believed to be a stray from the Cuerdale (1840) Hoad

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Sold for
£1,100

Starting price
£200