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Auction: 26005 - British and World Coins and Medals: The Martin J Waldron Collection of English Coins
Lot: 326

(x) Eadgar (959-975), Post-Reform, Penny, 973-975, Rochester, Sidumann, + EADGAR REX ANGLORx, diademed and draped bust left, rev. + SIDEMAN M¯OH ROF • small cross pattée in centre, 1.62g [25.00grns], 3h (BEH 36; SCBI 11 [Reading University], 59 same dies; Lockett I, 634 same dies; North 752; BMC vi [Coll. no. 40]; S.1141), typically weak for portrait strike and slightly creased, otherwise richly cabinet toned, fine to about very fine, a very rare 'provincial' mint

Provenance

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


SNC, July-August 1988, no. 4632* - "rare, weakly struck in centre, otherwise F-VF" [with tickets and envelope]


C J Firth Spink 6, 10 October 1979, lot 273 - "Portrait flat, otherwise fine, very rare"


SNC, May 1944, no. 25332 - "R. very good" - £6.0.0


Lord Grantley, Third Portion, 22 March 1944, lot 1096 - "very good and rare, buckled" - £4.0.0 [Spink]




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

Estimate
£800 to £1,000

Starting price
£600