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Auction: 25021 - The Simpson Collection of Hiberno-Norse and Irish Coinage
Lot: 14

Hiberno-Norse (c. 1035-1060), Phase III, Penny, Dublin, in the style of an Æthelred II Long Cross Penny, stylised legend, draped bust left, five-fingered hand on neck, trio of pellets before mouth, rev. stylised legend, voided long cross, stylised hand in first and fourth quarters, 0.95g, 8h (SCBI 8 [British Museum] -; SCBI 32 [Ulster Museum], 254; SCBI 22 [Copenhagen] -; S.6131), on a neat round flan, with a clearly struck portrait, toned, a pleasing very fine, an evidently extremely rare variety unrepresented in the major institutional collections

Provenance

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



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Sold for
£1,600

Starting price
£300