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Auction: 25021 - The Simpson Collection of Hiberno-Norse and Irish Coinage
Lot: 15

Hiberno-Norse (c. 1035-1060), Phase III, Penny, Dublin, in the style of an Æthelred II Long Cross Penny, draped bust left, with pointed nose, rev. stylised legend, voided long cross, stylised hand in first and fourth quarters, 0.76g (Dolley A/a; SCBI 8 [British Museum], 125 same obverse die; DF 24; S.6132), lightly crimped and porous to patchily field-toned surfaces, otherwise residually lustrous, almost very fine for strike

Provenance

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

C J Denton, by private treaty with Simpson

S N Lane, Spink 23, 21 September 1982, lot 62 - "die crack on obverse, fair to fine" - £45 [Denton]

E Szauer, collection dispersed privately in Dublin, January 1980

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Sold for
£400

Starting price
£150