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Auction: 26004 - British and World Coins and Medals
Lot: 13

Eadgar (959-975), Circumscription Cross, Penny, "Midlands Group", Northampton, Osweald, + EADGAR REX ANGLORVI, small cross pattée, rev. +-OSPAL•D MONETA HAT, NE ligate, small cross pattée, 1.160g [17.90 grns], 6h (Hawkins 201; W C Wells [BNJ, 1931-33], pp. 51-52, no. 15 and Fig. 20 this coin; CTCE, Pl. XXI, 261 this coin; BMC III, -), richly cabinet toned, otherwise of excellent fabric, a pleasing very fine, UNIQUE, and with an exemplary pedigree back to an early 19th Century trove of Viking-era coins unearthed at Derrykeighan (Co. Antrim)

Provenance

~ Spink Numismatic Circular (May 1983), "A Numismatic Debate: On a Coin of Edgar by the Moneyer Oswald", by C E Blunt and Dr A J P Campbell, p. 114, Coin A - this coin ~


~ R A G Carson, "Mints, Dies and Currency: Essays Dedicated to the Memory of Albert Baldwin", Pl. X, 20 - this coin ~


A H Baldwin, 'Family' (Basement) Collection


Lord Grantley, sold privately to A H Baldwin, before 1944*


William Allen, Sotheby's, 14-17 March 1898. lot 236* - "Hatfield. Penny without bust (Rud. 21-20), + OSPAL'D. MONE [NE. mon.]TA. HAT., Small cross on each side, fine and a very rare mint, unpublished [Pl. II]" - £3.0.0 [Lord Grantley]


Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, Second Portion, Sotheby's, 28 May 1866, lot 287 [part] - "+ OZPALD MO[NE mon]TA HAT. = Hatfield, fine and rare" - £0.11.0


William Webster, the celebrated dealer, by private treaty with Captain R M Murchison, 1857


James Carruthers, Sotheby's, 26 January 1857, lot 6 [part] - "...Eadgar, 2, struck at Chester and Hatfield, all well preserved" - £1.6.0 [Webster]


James Carruthers, Antiquarian, Late of Glen Cregagh, Co. Antrim (died 14 June 1860), by private treaty with the finders, by January 1844


Derrykeighan Hoard, June 1843


"Some persons when digging a grave in the burying ground of the Old Church of Derry: Keehan, Dervock, Co. Antrim discovered two hundred and sixty Saxon coins of the following Kings. Edwig, Edred, Eadgar, Eric, Athelstan and Edmund."



*NB. At the Lord Grantley dispersal at Glendining (Third Portion, 22 March 1944, lot 1092), a Southampton-signed Penny of Eadgar by the moneyer Mantat was erroneously given the provenance of our coin, suggesting at least that Grantley's ticket for the present specimen was still floating around in his cabinet at the time of his death. Perhaps like his Gold Penny, he rather regretted parting with this during his life?

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Estimate
£2,000 to £2,600

Starting price
£1800