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Auction: 7030 - Ancient, English & Foreign Coins & Comm Medals
Lot: 191

Hiberno-Norse, Phase I, c.997-1020, Penny, 1.05g, , series B 3/a, imitating Long Cross type of Aethelred II, Dublin, in name of Thym, bare head left, three spaced pellets on neck and three small pellets with a large cnetral pellet behind neck, dymn roe+ mnegni, rev. long cross, pellet in each cross end, dymm mn.o dyem (Roth 28 obv.; EH 8 (p492); cf. SCBI British Museum 29; Dolley, BNJ XXIX (1958-1959) p 286. no 7 and pl VXII, 7; O´S.9; S.6109), peck marked. trace of flan crack above bust, fine, very rare Estimate £ 600-800 provenance Dr. AN Brushfield, Glendining, 28 March 1940, lot 133 (part) Spink auction 23, 21 September 1982, lot 9

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