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Auction: 25021 - The Simpson Collection of Hiberno-Norse and Irish Coinage
Lot: 11

Hiberno-Norse, Sitric II "Silkbeard" Olafsson (c. 995-1036), Phase II, Late Issue, Penny, c. 1020-1035, 'Dunbrody Abbey' Type, Dublin, in the style of an Æthelred II Long Cross Penny, + INH-IN:NPIND, blundered legends, draped bust left, two pellets before mouth, cross pattée behind neck, rev. + INI [spiral]NI IIININ P8IN, largely symbolic legend with retrograde and reversed lettering, voided long cross, triquetra in third quarter, single pellet in others, 0.69g, 9h (Dolley A3/f; SCBI 8 [British Museum] 102, same reverse die; Roth 72 same dies; Spink Auction, 22 February 2006, lot 10; S.6127), some residual spots of verdigris to reverse and ghosting to portrait, otherwise lustrous and pleasingly cabinet toned, a really good very fine, of good metal and most pleasing in hand, a very rare variety

Provenance

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

C J Denton, by private treaty with Simpson - £350

"An Important Collection of Hiberno-Norse Coins" [S N Lane], Spink 23, 21 September 1982, lot 45 - 'a little surface verdigris left after cleaning, otherwise about very fine and a very rare variety' - £140 [an after-sale to Denton]

Found Dunbrody Abbey (Co. Wexford), 1836


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Sold for
£950

Starting price
£250