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Auction: 26005 - British and World Coins and Medals: The Martin J Waldron Collection of English Coins
Lot: 304

(x) Eadgar (959-975), Circumscription Cross, Penny, Southampton, Eadgild, + EADGAR REX ANGLORVI, small cross pattée in centre, rev. + EA•DGIL•D MONETA HA :· small cross pattée in centre with cross above, 1.25g [19.29grns], 3h (SCBI -; CTCE -; North 749; BMC iii [Coll. no. -]; S.1135), colourful field patina commensurate with the crisply struck devices, almost extremely fine and extremely rare, this variety unparalleled in the corpus and thus presumed UNIQUE

Provenance

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


SNC, June 1994, no. 4097* - "unrecorded moneyer for this reign, good VF and extremely rare." [with tickets and envelope]



A Penny from the Chester Castle Esplanade discovery of 1950 now in the British Museum (SCBI 34, 805) reveals Eadgild also striking at Southampton for Eadwig.

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

Estimate
£800 to £1,000

Starting price
£600