Auction: 25005 - The Carrington and Pallas Collections of Exceptional English and Anglo-Gallic Gold Coins and Proof Sets
Lot: 20
Wessex, Alfred the Great (871-899), Penny, Third Coinage, 'Two Line' Type, Canterbury, Eadwald, + AELFRED REX DORO, small cross pattée, rev. EADV AL MO in two lines, 1.40g [21.61grns], 6h (SCBI 48 [Northern], 861; BMC 21; North 638; S.1069), slight smoothing about the edges of the coin, light wear, toned, rare, very fine
Provenance
Keith Bayford, by private treaty [with his ticket]
William Christian Boyd [with his ticket], Baldwin's, Auction 42, 26 September 2005, lot 785* - £680
Dr Tomlinson, Puttick & Simpson, 7 April 1903 [Boyd]
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Sold for
£2,000
Starting price
£800