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Auction: 23051 - English Milled and Hammered Coins and Artefacts
Lot: 1032

The Quidenham Hoard of 10th Century Silver Pennies | Wessex, Edward the Elder (899-924), Penny, + EADVVEARD EX, finely incised laureate and draped bust right, rev. (trefoil) + (trefoil) | IIEIOIEB | + + + | IIEICIOB | (trefoil) + (trefoil), in two lines divided by row of three cross pattées, 1.56g [24.07grns], 5h (PAS NMS-F38064 = BM 2020T219, no. 6 this coin; Dies not represented in Morley; North 651; Spink -), minor delamination and struck with rusty dies, peripheral rusty spots, otherwise pleasantly struck up very fine, an exceptionally rare variety

Provenance

Found as part of a scattered hoard at Quidenham, Breckland District (Norfolk), Friday 20 December 2019

~ Recorded with Dr Adrian Marsden at the Norfolk Museum, (refs. INDJG13012020AM = SMR 60596 = PAS NMS-F38064) ~

~ Reported to the British Museum under the Treasure Act [1996], (ref. BM 2020T219), and subsequently declared treasure at formal inquest, but returned to finder on account of insufficient Museum funds ~


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