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Auction: 25021 - The Simpson Collection of Hiberno-Norse and Irish Coinage
Lot: 3

Hiberno-Norse, Sitric II "Silkbeard" Olafsson (c. 1000-1020), Phase I, Penny, c. 1000-1020, "London" [Dublin], "Emirnie" [Færemin (?)], in the style of an Æthelred II Long Cross Penny, + ÐYMN ROÆ + MNEGII, draped bust left, pellet before lips and pellet-brooch behind neck, rev. + EMIRNIE MIO LVND. voided long cross, additional pellet in third and fourth quarters [?], 1.21g, 3h (Dolley B.3/b; BNJ [1959], xviii, 15; SCBI 8 [Dolley], 30 same obverse die; BEH, p. 492, no. 5; Lockett, Part V, 491 this coin; cf. SCBI 32 [Ulster Museum] 27; Roth, "Coins of the Danish Kings of Ireland" [BNJ VI, 1910], no. 27; DF 8; "Good Money" 518 same dies; S.6107), lightly crimped and with a minor daylight spot to centre, otherwise toned, very fine and very rare

Provenance

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

With printed collector's tickets

C J Denton, by private treaty with Simpson

S N Lane, Spink 23, 21 September 1982, lot 11 - "slight crack in centre, otherwise about very fine, extremely rare" - £360 [Denton]

Seaby, by private treaty, 1957 - £15.0.0 [with this ticket]

Richard Cyril Lockett, Part V, Glendining, 19 June 1957, lot 491 [part] - 'all extremely fine' - £24.0.0 [Seaby]



The meaning of the obverse legend remains unknown, with no Hiberno-Scandinavian leader named Thymn (ÐYMN) known to history. A suggestion that it related to the Danish warrior-hero Tymme Sjallandsfar was disproved by Dolley (BNJ 29, p. 275). For further reading on the enigmatic moneyer, see J Chown, SNC September 1985, p. 222


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Sold for
£800

Starting price
£300