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Auction: 26005 - British and World Coins and Medals: The Martin J Waldron Collection of English Coins
Lot: 339

(x) Æthelred II 'Unræd' (978-1016), 'Last Small Cross' Type, Penny, 1009-1017, Thetford, Eadwine, + EDELRED REX ANGLO : diademed and draped bust left, small cross pattée behind bust, rev. + EDPINE MQON DEODF, cross pattée in centre, 1.24g [19.14grns], 10h (BEH 3730; Carson 20; H A Parsons, 'Symbols and Double Names on Late Saxon Coins' [BNJ 1917], p. 29; SCBI 25 [Helsinki], 556 same dies; SCBI 36 [Berlin], 567 same dies; SCBI 65 [Norway], 1561 same dies; North 777; BMC I; S.1154), peck marked, otherwise with deep and rich cabinet tone, a bolder very fine with a most pleasing portrait, the variety very rare with only one other specimen traced in private hands

Provenance

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


William H. Pheatt, BDW 12, 21 March 1995, lot 549 - "a little crimped, minor peckmarking, about very fine" - £110 [with lot card]


Gordon Vincent Doubleday, Glendining, 6 October 1987, lot 486* [part] - "very fine"


W C Wells, collection purchased en-bloc by Baldwin, 1949


Possibly:

Herbert Alexander Parsons, First Collection, Glendining, 28 October - 1 November 1929, lot 144(c) - "a cross pattée behind bust, all extremely fine and very rare"



In May 1969, one cataloguer further conjectured that the King's hair may have been depicted as being restrained by a 'net or snood'


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Estimate
£300 to £400

Starting price
£280