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Auction: 23005 - The "Haddenham" Collection of English Coins
Lot: 166

The 'Haddenham' Collection of English Coins | Eadred (946-955), 'Horizontal-Rosette' Type, North Western Mints, Penny, Derby [?], Grimr, + EADRED REX, small cross patteé, rev. GRIM | ES MOT, three crosses, rosette above and below, [Spink XRF: 90.57% Ag; 7.54% Cu; 0.69% Au; 0.648% Pb; 0.56% Zn], 1.38g [21.30grns], 8h (Williams IV, 497; CTCE 142; Ruding [1817], Pl. XIX, no. 5 = SCBI 2 [Hunterian], 653 same dies; North 707; BMC I [Coll. no. 49]; Spink 1113), spots of verdigris, otherwise struck on a pleasingly round flan, very fine, a scarce moneyer for this King

Provenance

T Mathews, by private treaty, 1987 - £260



A moneyer of this name is known at Bedford in the reign of his son and successor, Eadwig, although historical scholarship has posited the mint of Derby. Seven examples are presently recorded on EMC, all listed in SCBIs, with six of these housed in institutional collections



In 1909, Raymond Carlyon-Britton utilised a coin of this moneyer to illustrate the series of Hiberno-Norse pennies struck by Anlaf Guthfrithsson were struck at Derby. (cf. " On Certain Tenth Century Coins and Fragments found in the Isle of Man." BNJ, 1909, pp. 375-376 - read 21 July)

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Sold for
£1,400

Starting price
£200