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Auction: 26005 - British and World Coins and Medals: The Martin J Waldron Collection of English Coins
Lot: 316

(x) Eadgar (959-975), Round Halfpenny, 'Restitution' or Monogram Type, London, EADG+AR RE, crowned bust right, rev. LONDONIA monogram, small cross pattée above, pellet to left and triangle of six pellets in pile below, 0.38g [5.86grns], 6h (Hoffman, "Anglo-Saxon and Danelaw Halfpennies", BNJ [2023], LMEG-05, Pl. 7, 204, this coin; Williams I, 71; CTCE 394; North 753; BMC - [Coll no. 1172 same dies]; S.1140B), lightly chipped, otherwise darkly toned, with key devices crisp and present in the strike, a pleasing very fine, extremely rare, an important "Restitution" of Alfred the Great's London Monogram issue of AD 886

Provenance

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


SNC, October 1998, no. 6389* - "almost VF and very rare" [with ticket and envelope]


SNC, July-August 1989, no. 4038


Almost certainly:


Thames Exchange (Lower Thames Street, EC4), Excavations, 1989



Blunt, Lyon and Stewart observed: "There is no inner circle on the obverse, and the legend, which begins at 8 o'clock, is curiously broken at 12 o'clock by what would normally be an initial cross: EADG+AR RE"

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

Estimate
£2,400 to £3,000

Starting price
£2000