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Auction: 26005 - British and World Coins and Medals: The Martin J Waldron Collection of English Coins
Lot: 250

(x) Danish East Anglia (c. 885-915), 'St Edmund Memorial Coinage', Penny, c. 895-915, East Anglian Mint, Cunernet [?], + CIEADMIVE, A with diagonal bar in centre, rev. + CVNRNETIE, cross pattée in centre, 1.24g [19.14grns], 1h (SCBI -; North 983; BMC -; S.960), superb cabinet toning with golden iridescent fields, well-centred, extremely fine, very rare, the moneyer not listed in North, but highly reminiscent of the 'Cvnnetti' emissions of the Viking Kingdom of York

Provenance

The Martin Waldron Collection of Anglo-Saxon, Norman and Plantagenet Coins


SNC, October 1992, no. 5937* - "good VF and interesting" [with tickets and envelope]


Christopher Evelyn Blunt collection [with his ticket]


Duke of Argyll, collection purchased en bloc by Spink, 1949 [with his ticket]


Messrs Spink & Son, by private treaty



Conceivably:


Major P W P Carlyon-Britton, Third Portion, Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 11 November 1918, lot 1631 [part] - "rare, all fine" - £1.5.0 [Spink]


William Boyne, Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 21 January 1896, lot 1110 [part]


Rev. Edward John Shepherd, Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 22 July 1885, lot 46 [part] - £0.18.0 [Boyne]


Subject to 5% tax on Hammer Price in addition to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium.

Estimate
£500 to £800

Starting price
£400