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Auction: 26005 - British and World Coins and Medals: The Martin J Waldron Collection of English Coins
Lot: 268

(x) Danish East Anglia (c. 885-915), 'St Edmund Memorial Coinage', Penny, c. 895-915, East Anglian Mint, Widbald / Wigbald, + SC EADMVD REX :•, A with Y-shaped bar in centre, rev. + VVIGBALDVS ME :•, cross pattée in centre, 1.40g [21.61grns], 6h (SCBI 9 [Ashmolean], 82 same dies [Wigbald]; SCBI 24 [West Country], 355 [Widbald]; North 483; BMC 595; S.960), with an antique scuff above A, and slight undulation in flan, otherwise beautiful blue steel and rainbow toning, almost extremely fine, a very rare moneyer

Provenance

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


Larry R Stack, Sotheby's (New York), 22 April 1999, lot 361 [with ticket and lot envelope]


Spink 6, 10 October 1979, lot 265 - "extremely fine, toned"



With a die match to an example from the Cuerdale hoard (1840), and the state of preservation of the present piece, a tentative attribution is not just possible, but probable

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

Estimate
£500 to £800

Starting price
£400