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Auction: 23107 - Spink Numismatic e-Circular 27: British and World Coins, Medals and Tokens Featuring the 'Leja Park' Collection - e-Auction
Lot: 7033

The Owen-Rooke Collection | Æthelred II 'the Unready' (978-1016), 'Crux' Type, Penny, 991-997, Oxford, Goding, + ÆÐELRÆD REX ANGLORX, draped bust left, trefoil-tipped sceptre before, rev. + GODINC M-O OXNA, short voided cross, C R V X in angles commencing in second quarter, 1.59g [24.2grns], 12h (Nils Keder [1708], pp. 40, no. 110; Schröder [1833], pp. 18, no. 19; Charles Lewis Stainer [1904], 'Oxford Silver Pennies' (925-1272), pp. 16-17, no. 17 [Pl. IV, 11 same dies]; SCBI 7 [Copenhagen], 1047; SCBI 9 [Ashmolean], 484-486, cf. 484 same obverse die; SCBI 20 [Mack], 878 this coin; SCBI 37 [Polish], 41; SCBI 65 [Norwegian], 319; North 770; BMC IIIa; Spink 1148), some peck marks and traces of doubling, otherwise struck on a pleasingly round flan and with a pleasing cabinet tone, a really bold very fine, scarce

Provenance
The Owen-Rooke Collection of Oxfordshire Pennies (978-1272)

Commander Richard Paston Mack, Part II, Spink-Glendining, 23 July 1977, lot 119 - very fine and rare

Duke of Argyll, collection purchased en bloc by Spink, 1949

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Estimate

Starting price
£250