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Auction: 26005 - British and World Coins and Medals: The Martin J Waldron Collection of English Coins
Lot: 253

(x) Danish East Anglia (c. 885-915), 'St Edmund Memorial Coinage', Penny, in the name of Pope Adrian III, c. 17 May 884 - 8 July 885 [?], Ersalt, + CDRENI DANAC, ["To Adrian from the Danes"], commencing at 5 o'clock, A with Y-shaped bar and five pellets in centre, rev. + F•RSAI•— MON, legend starts at 11 o'clock, cross pattée in centre, 1.34g [20.68grns], 6h (SCMB 488, January 1949, X17 = BNS, 29 May 1949, p. 105, no. 1 this coin; SCBI 1 [Fitzwilliam], 470-471 same dies; SCBI 4 [Copenhagen], 141 same dies; SCBI 9 [Ashmolean], 101 same dies; SCBI 48 [Northern Museums], 736 same obverse die [Cuerdale]; Haddenham 149; North 483; BMC 402; S.960), beautifully centred and with striking cabinet toning, accentuated by iridescent recesses, extremely fine or very near so, these dies recorded in the Cuerdale Hoard

Provenance

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


SNC, October 1992, *5938 - "almost EF and interesting" [with tickets and envelope]


Christopher Evelyn Blunt [with his ticket]


~ Exhibited by Peter Seaby during the BNS meeting, 25 May 1949 ~
Recorded in BNS Proceedings, 1949, pg. 105 (meeting chaired by Blunt)


Glendining, 29 March 1949, lot 178 - £1.10.0 [Seaby]

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

Estimate
£500 to £800

Starting price
£400