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Auction: 25021 - The Simpson Collection of Hiberno-Norse and Irish Coinage
Lot: 2

Hiberno-Norse, Sitric II "Silkbeard" Olafsson (c. 995-1036), Phase I, Penny, c. 1000-1020, Dublin, Færemin, with a stolen Æthelred II Long Cross Penny obverse die, + ÆÐELRED REX ANGLO, draped bust left, pellet behind neck, rev. + FÆREMIN M'O DYFLI, voided long cross, 1.28g, 10h (SCBI 8 [British Museum], 31-32; SCBI 22 [Copenhagen], 12-13; SCBI 32 [Ulster Museum] 17-22; S.6106), crimped and struck from a rusted obverse die, with daylight spots to legends, lightly toned, a pleasingly bold fine / very fine

Provenance

The John Noel Simpson Collection of English, Irish and Hiberno-Norse Coins



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