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Auction: 23129 - Spink Numismatic e-Circular 33: British and World Coins - e-Auction
Lot: 9804

Kent, Anonymous Regal Issues, temp. Baldred (c. 822-823), Penny, Canterbury, Oba, diademed and draped bust right within solid inner circle from which extend three arms, each in the form of a Latin cross dividing the legend, O[BA-M]ON-ETA, rev. DOROB | ERNIA | C[IVITAS] in three lines, small cross pattée above, 0.86g (North 222; Spink 878), half of flan cut away, that which remains scratched with light porosity, but detailed and a fine example of this great rarity; additionally, Archbishops of Canterbury, Wulfred (805-832), Penny, Canterbury, Swetman, draped and tonsured bust facing, rev. + SVATEM[AN MONET]A, legend surrounding circle containing DOROB C monogram, 0.49g (North 240; Spink 888; Naismith C92b = BNJ Coin Register, 1987, no. 103 = EMC 1987.0103 this coin), good fine, an unusual and scarce type; also, Mercia, Coenwulf (796-821), 'Cross and Wedges' Type Penny, Canterbury, Duda (Spink 915); Mercia, Ceolwulf I (821-823), Penny, Rochester, Ealhstan, [+ COEL]VVLF REX, rev. + EALHTAN [MONETA], monogram A superimposed on cross, 0.94g (North 376; Spink 921); lastly, Mercia, Ceolwulf I (821-823), Penny, East Anglia Issues, (Spink 927) (4)

Provenance

i) P Elkins, by private treaty, 30 November 2005 - £300

ii) Reportedly found in North Essex, 1987

~ Recorded with the BNJ Coin Register 1987, no. 103 ~

~ Recorded with the Fitzwilliam Museum (1987.0103) ~

"Only one specimen has hitherto been recorded of Wulfred's Second Monogram (Ecgbeorht) type (BLS no. 19). The reverse reading is very puzzling, but should perhaps be seen as +SVAEFH . .; although it must be said that the T seems clear enough. No other moneyer than Swefheard is known, and one would have to postulate the very brief activity, late in Wulfred's pontificate, of a moneyer with an otherwise unrecorded name. For pellets added to the monogram, cf. a coin of Ecgbeorht of the same reverse type, BMA 374."

iii) By private treaty, Dorset, 17 September 2006 - £171

Found in North Dorset, by September 2006

~ Recorded with the Fitzwilliam Museum (EMC 2023.0???) ~

iv) M Andrews, by private treaty, Old Ellerby (East Riding of Yorkshire), 7 August 2006 - £175

Found at Whissonsett (Norfolk), by April 2006

~ Recorded with the Fitzwilliam Museum (EMC 2006.0208) ~

v) P Elkins, by private treaty, 13 May 2006 - £495

Found at King's Lynn (Norfolk), Winter 2005

~ Recorded with the Fitzwilliam Museum (EMC 2006.0070) ~


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Estimate

Starting price
£60