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Auction: 26005 - British and World Coins and Medals: The Martin J Waldron Collection of English Coins
Lot: 264

(x) Danish East Anglia (c. 885-915), 'St Edmund Memorial Coinage', Penny, c. 895-915, East Anglian Mint, Sanier / Ansiger [?], + SC EADMVN, A with Y-shaped bar in centre, rev. + SANIER MV, cross pattée in centre, 1.26g [19.44grns], 6h (SCBI -; North 483; BMC -; S.960), deep tone with fiery underlying iridescence, about extremely fine and extremely rare, a truly wholesome and pleasing cabinet coin; the moneyer not listed in North or BMC, and perhaps a simple blundering of Ansiger

Provenance

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


Larry R Stack, Sotheby's (New York), 22 April 1999, lot 360 [with ticket and lot envelope]


Spink, by private treaty (ANA Cincinnati), 18 August 1980

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

Estimate
£500 to £800

Starting price
£400