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Auction: 23051 - English Milled and Hammered Coins and Artefacts
Lot: 1034

Wessex, Edward the Elder (899-924), 'Portrait' Type, Penny, Tila, + EADVVEARD REX, finely incised laureate and draped bust left, rev. TILI M | ONE TA, the TA inverted, in two lines divided by row of cross pattées, trefoil above and below, 1.55g [23.92grns], 12h (CTCE 40; cf. SCBI 26 [East Anglia], 879 [Morley St Peter]; Vatican Hoard 451 = Lockett 2713 = SCBI 20 [Mack], 751 same reverse die; BMC III; North 651; Spink 1084), inconsequential rim loss between 5 and 8 o'clock, otherwise of excellent metal, dappled field tone overlying uniform original surfaces, a really good very fine with an exceptional portrait, excessively rare in open commerce, with only one example of Tila recovered each from the Morley St. Peter and Vatican troves

Provenance

Found at Sudbury (Suffolk), Sunday 12 November 2023

~ Recorded with the Fitzwilliam Museum, ref. EMC 2023.0510 ~

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