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Auction: 23006 - The Official COINEX Auction at Spink
Lot: 47

Danelaw, Viking Jarldoms, 'The Five Boroughs', Sihtric Cáech {Sigtryggr Gále}, 'The One-Eyed' (921-927), Sword-Hammer Penny, Lincoln [?], Tidwulf, + SITR-IC REX in two lines, divided by sword right, rev. + TEDVL MOT commencing at 6 o'clock, Mjöllnir [Thor's hammer], [Spink XRF: 92.17% Ag; 6.76% Cu; 0.68% Au; 0.387% Pb], 1.13g [17.44grns], 9h [to i.m.] (cf. EMC 2017.0001; EMC 2023.0094 this coin; cf. North 536; Spink 1013), historic edge chip at seven o'clock, and a hint of die clashing above SITR, otherwise of exceptional metal with attractive honey toning across original pearlescent-gray fields, extremely fine or very near so for strike, excessively rare, a new moneyer for type

Provenance

Found near Horncastle (Lincolnshire), 23 February 2023

~ Recorded with the Fitzwilliam Museum, ref. EMC 2023.0094 ~

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Sold for
£8,000

Starting price
£8000