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Auction: 5014 - The Coinex Sale
Lot: 1324

x Kings of all England, Aethelstan (924-939), Penny, 1.24g., bust crowned type, Manna, EDELCTAN REX, crowned bust right, rev. MANNA MONETA, around small cross pattee (Blunt -; N.673; S.1094), outer beading slightly chipped, otherwise very fine, a very rare portrait style Estimate £ 700-800PROVENANCE: Spink Auction 129, 17 November 1998, lot 137 Manna is not recorded as a moneyer for the bust crowned type. The crude linear style of portrait on this piece is unusual under Aethelstan, and is more often found in the coinage of Eadmund and Eadred, c.f. SCBI 34 (BM), 714

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