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Auction: 23006 - The Official COINEX Auction at Spink
Lot: 57

Aethelstan (924-939), 'Horizontal' Type 1, Penny, Chester, Abba, +ÆÐELSTAN REX, small cross pattée, rev. ABBA | + + + | MON in two lines, three cross pattées between, trefoil of pellets above and below, 1.54g [23.77grns], 10h (CEB 7; North 668.1; BMC I; Spink 1089), lightly crimped, otherwise with a most pleasing rich old cabinet tone on a full flan, very fine, the moneyer's name rather desirable on account of his famous musical namesake

Provenance

Bonhams (Auction 24192), 22 November 2017, lot 286

Lord Stewartby, Part I, Spink 234, 22 March 2016, lot 165

Baldwin, by private treaty, November 2000

S Mitchell, by private treaty, 1992


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