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Auction: 23051 - English Milled and Hammered Coins and Artefacts
Lot: 1028

Wessex, Ecgberht (802-839), 'DOROB C' Type, Penny, c. 828-839, Canterbury, 'Deibus Moneta', + ECGBEAR-HT REX, diademed head right, with large oval eye, rev. + DEIBVS MONETA, DOROB-C monogram in centre, 1.304g [20.12grns], 9h [to i.m.] ('A Find of Anglo-Saxon Coins' (Middle Temple Hoard), NumChron [1894], p. 58, no. 31; Henry H Howorth, "The Coins of Ecgbeorth and his Son Athelstan", NumChron [1908], pp. 222-265 this moneyer not listed; Cotton's Anglo-Saxon Coins in the light of the Peiresc Inventory of 1606 [BNJ, 2006], M A Archibald, pp. 193, no. 76 [= PH 250/107 and 263 (d). S 348. F VIII, 2]; Naismith - [cf. 81 ~ DEIBVS MONT]; North 573; Spink 1035), minor flan chip at 5 o'clock with resulting rim furl and a minor daylight split above portrait, otherwise of excellent metal, struck details a most pleasing very fine, an excessively rare "moneyer" known only from two other coins both held in the British Museum from the Middle Temple and Dorking hoards, the reverse die previously unrecorded and an evidently important ecclesiastical invocation as the 'Money of the Gods'

Provenance

Found at Lenham, Kent, 27 August 2023 ~

~ Recorded with the Fitzwilliam Museum, ref. EMC 2023.0312 ~



In Archibald's thesis on coins from the Sir Robert Cotton (1606) collection, she noted the following record of an incomplete coin of 'DEIBVS MONETA' unknown to Naismith. She states: "The Canterbury monogram in the centre of the reverse is identified in PH 263 as Ecgbearht's. Speed omits the I on the reverse in error. D&S 1954 suggest with a query that the museum coin was probably that illustrated by Speed and presented to the British Museum by Taylor Combe's widow. He did not mention it in his lists. The coin has the typically black patina of coins from the Cotton collection. It is very fragile and had probably deteriorated between Speed seeing it and the decision to exclude it from BMC in 1893."

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