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Auction: 23005 - The "Haddenham" Collection of English Coins
Lot: 167

The 'Haddenham' Collection of English Coins | Eadred (946-955), 'Portrait' Type, East Anglian Mints, Penny, Ingalbert, EADRED REX, diademed and draped bust right, rev. + ENGELBERT MO, small cross pattée, [Spink XRF: 74.58% Ag; 19.33% Cu; 3.08% Pb; 2.36% Zn; 0.64% Au], 0.99g [15.28grns], 3h (CTCE –; BMC –; cf. SCBI 68 [Lyon], 725; North 713; Spink 1115), porous surfaces and some edge loss, with a hairline crack through obverse, otherwise the portrait clearly struck, very fine, an extremely scarce moneyer for this type

Provenance

Warwick & Warwick 836, 18 April 2018, lot 783 - £655

Spink 216, 26-27 March 2013, lot 507 - "porous surfaces and some edge loss, obverse scratch, otherwise clear, an unrecorded moneyer, possibly the only known coin of this moneyer, nearly very fine, very rare" - £1,200

SNC, March 2012, HS4828 - porous metal, scratch, otherwise clear, unrecorded moneyer for portrait Pennies of Eadred, very rare - £2,250

N Mills, by private treaty, 21 November 2011 - £1,600

DNW 86, 16 June 2010, lot 904 - 1.04g; rather buckled and with a hairline surface crack on obverse, otherwise better than very fine, the moneyer unpublished for the type, probably the only known specimen - £1,650 - and subsequently restored with resultant edge loss


One of only three traced by this cataloguer, with this moneyer and type combination. Englbred and Ingelberd are both known readings for Eadred’s Two Line type (CTCE 30 and 42/1)




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Sold for
£650

Starting price
£200