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Auction: 23005 - The "Haddenham" Collection of English Coins
Lot: 154

The 'Haddenham' Collection of English Coins | Wessex, Æthelwulf (839-858), Phase I, 'Non-Portrait' Type, Penny, c. 839-844, Canterbury, Deora, + EÐELVVLF REX, cross patteé over cross patteé saltire, rev. + DIAR MONETA, legend commencing at 9 o'clock, SAX | ONIO | RVM in three lines in centre, [Spink XRF: 77.90% Ag; 17.15% Cu; 3.31% Zn; 0.68% Os; 0.485% Au; 0.461% Pb], 1.24g [19.14grns], 5h (Naismith C97c this coin; SCBI 2 [Hunterian], 545 [legend commences at 12 o'clock, ex Coats]; SCBI 20 [Mack], 706 this coin; cf. 'Anglo Saxon Coins', Dolley and Skaare, Pl. VIII, no. 3; North 596; BMC V [Coll. no. 26 = Dorking Hoard]; Spink 1044), chipped to edge between 1 and 2 o'clock, and with traces of verdigris, otherwise of good metal, a clear and well-centered strike, lightly toned, strictly approaching very fine, but extremely rare, only five known to Naismith, with just two in private hands - this by far the best

Provenance

T Mathews, by private treaty, 1989 - £390

SNC, July 1987, no. 4366 - "rare, edge chipped, otherwise VF" - £500
SNC, September 1985, no. 5732 - "rare, edge chipped, otherwise F-VF" - £500
Commander R P Mack, Sylloge 706, collection part-purchased after auction by Spink, 1979

Baldwin, by private treaty, 1948 [with his ticket]



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