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Auction: 23005 - The "Haddenham" Collection of English Coins
Lot: 158

The 'Haddenham' Collection of English Coins | Wessex, Alfred the Great (871-899), 'Two-Line' (Guthrum) Type, Penny, c. 880-899, Mercian Dies, Wymund/Wilmund [?], + EL FR ED RE, small cross pattée, rev. VIM | VND in two lines, trefoil and pellet between, [Spink XRF: 94.22% Ag; 3.73% Cu; 1.11% Au; 0.515% Pb; 0.222% Zn; 0.20% Fe], 1.37g [21.14grns], 9h (Carlyon-Britton [1916], 941b = SNC, 1927, no. 67025 this coin [?]; North 637; BMC XIV [Coll -]; Spink 1066), lightly cleaned but retoning, and struck with heavily rusted dies, otherwise of excellent metal, a really bold very fine, the moneyer excessively rare and not in the British Museum Collection

Provenance

T Mathews, by private treaty, 1986 - £375

Presumably:

Glendining, 10-11 December 1980, lot 254 - "fine, obverse struck from rusty dies, unrecorded moneyer" - £400

Presumably:

SNC, 1927, no. 67025 - "extremely fine" - £1.15.0

Major P W P Carlyon-Britton, Sotheby's, 1916, lot 941 [part] - ..."VIM-VND, divided by single central pellet and two trefoils of pellets; above and below, a single pellet, unpublished moneyer, very fine and rare" - £1.18.0 [Spink]

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