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Auction: 24005 - The Official Coinex Auction of Ancient, British and World Coins
Lot: 259A

Eadred (946-955), Penny, 'Two Line' Type, North-Western Issues, Nottingham [?], Æthelnoth, EADRED REX, small cross, rev. EDEL | + + + | NAÐ, between trefoil stops, 1.28g [19.75grns], 4h (North 707; S.1113), significant crack to verdigris-soaked planchet, otherwise of stable fabric, the struck details very fine, and with an EXCEPTIONAL provenance

Provenance

From the Collection of Jon Mann

Morton & Eden 91, 7-8 December 2017, lot 33

C E Blunt and H E Pagan (BNJ 1975), "Three Tenth Century Hoards: Bath (1755), Kintbury (1761), Threadneedle Stree (before 1924), p. 25, fn. 4, this coin and ticket referenced; and p. 26, no. 5 this coin
~ J S Strudwick (BNJ 1955), "An Account of Some Saxon Coins Found at Honedon near Clare, Suffolk, 1687', p. 181, fn. 1 this coin referenced

~ Rediscovered by Owen F Parsons in 1947/48 ~
Hardwicke Court (Gloucestershire) Collection, housed in a cabinet that belonged to King Charles I, but was presented to Archbishop Sharp by Queen Anne

John Sharp III, Archdeacon of Northumberland (1723-1792), with ticket in his hand, stating: "Found in a grave under a scull [sic] at Kintbury Churchyard, Berkshire, Jun. 1761"
Archbishop John Sharp (1645-1714), thence by descent to his grandson

Kintbury Churchyard Hoard (Berkshire), June 1761



A note in Archaeologia, Vol. VIII, p. 430, states the following: "There were lately dug up some hundres of ancient silver pennies of coins, which were found under a skull. The grave digger sold those that fell to his share for 16s. 6d. Many of them are much valued by the curious."



C E Blunt noted: "One coin of Eadred is in the Archbishop Sharp collection, five pennies of Eadmund and Eadred were sold in the William Powell sale of March 1762 and another penny of Eadred in the National Collection (BMC 92). Blunt also noted a coin of Eadwig in the Ashmolean Museum from the same find.


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