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Auction: 23005 - The "Haddenham" Collection of English Coins
Lot: 174

The 'Haddenham' Collection of English Coins | Æthelred II "Unræd" (978-1016), Standard 'Crux' Type, Penny, c. 991-997, Cambridge, Eadric, + ÆÐELRÆD REX ANGLORx, NG ligate, single-folded, draped bust left, trefoil-tipped 'thick' sceptre before, rev. + EDRIC M-O GRANT, voided short cross, C R V X in angles, commencing in second quarter, 1.37g [21.14grns], 3h (Hildebrand 1161; K A Jacob [Baldwin Auction 7, 2 May 1996], lots 409/412 = SCMB, February 1984, Pl. I, 7 same dies; SCBI 36 [Berlin], 240; North 770; BMC IIIa [Coll. no. 109]; Spink 1148), minor stress fracture through bust, traces of peck marking to reverse, otherwise toned, very fine, a scarcer provincial mint

Provenance

T Mathews, by private treaty, 1999 - £190




Writing in the Seaby Coin and Medal Bulletin (February 1984, p. 38), Jacob noted: "Eadric, spelt on the coins normally as EDRIC, a prolific moneyer, provides an interesting sequence of dies. Two different obverse dies are recorded as coupled with one of his reverse dies (Nos. 6 and 7): the reverse die is then coupled with a third obverse die, but on this occasion a pellet is added in the first quarter by the X of CRVX (No. 8)."

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Sold for
£240

Starting price
£70