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Auction: 25021 - The Simpson Collection of Hiberno-Norse and Irish Coinage
Lot: 26

Hiberno-Norse (c. 1060-1065), Phase IV, Penny, 'Scratched Die' Type, Dublin, in the style of an Æthelred II Long Cross Penny, stylised legend, draped bust left, rev. stylised legend, voided long cross, crude stylised hand with three fingers in one quarter, scratched cross and two pellets in clockwise adjacent, possibly pellets in other quadrants, 1.08g, 12h (Dolley A/b; SCBI 8 [British Museum], 147; DF 25; S.6134), heavily double struck, otherwise of good metal, poor to fair

Provenance

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

C J Denton, by private treaty with Simpson

H Pegg, Spink 11, 8-9 October 1980, lot 745 - 'poorly struck, fair to fine, but very rare' - £230 [Denton]

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Sold for
£160

Starting price
£50