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Auction: 25005 - The Carrington and Pallas Collections of Exceptional English and Anglo-Gallic Gold Coins and Proof Sets
Lot: 18

Wessex, Æthelwulf (839-858), Penny, Phase 4, Inscribed Cross type, Canterbury, Hunbearht, + AEÐELVVLF REX, draped bust right breaking beaded inner circle, rev. + HVNBEA RHTMO on limbs of beaded cross, NETA in angles, NB and HT ligatured, 1.36g [20.99grns], 9h (SCBI 9 [Ashmolean], 236-237; SCBI 67 [British Museum], 1221, 1222 same dies, 1223; EMC 2019.0260; Naismith C144.i same dies; North 618; S.1051), good very fine, toned, rare

Provenance

Allan Williams, Spink 18011, 27 March 2018, lot 51*

Sotheby, 23 May 1988, lot 310* - very fine and toned, rare

Purchased Baldwin, 20 February 1962


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£2,900

Starting price
£2400