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Auction: 25005 - The Carrington and Pallas Collections of Exceptional English and Anglo-Gallic Gold Coins and Proof Sets
Lot: 13

Mercia, Ludica (825-827), Penny, East Anglian mint, Werbald, + LVDICA REX ME, legend begins at 9 o'clock, diademed bust right, the beaded inner circle following the shape of the plain square truncation, rev. PER BALD MONE in three lines, 1.19g [18.36grns], 6h (Naismith E28, the third documented specimen; EMC 1994.0183 [Bradenham] = Spink 106, 12 October 1994, lot 385 = Allan Williams I, 35 same obverse die; North 398; S.931), chipped coin with flan splits and a near break in flan, incomplete and delicate, otherwise of good metal, toned, bold details, very fine

Provenance

Found by S McEvoy in Metfield Parish (Suffolk), April 2023

~ Recorded with the British Museum, PAS: NMS-37E208 ~

~ Recorded with the Fitzwilliam Museum, EMC 2023.0297 ~


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Estimate
£12,000 to £15,000

Starting price
£10000