Auction: 7030 - Ancient, English & Foreign Coins & Comm Medals
Lot: 210
Hiberno-Norse, Phase II, c.1015-1035, Penny, 1.25g, Group A, 3/c, bust left with large lips, imitating Long Cross issue of Aethelred II, large initial cross, three pellets in angles of drapery and cross pommée behind neck, iiiitre re+ dyf, rev. voided long cross extending from central pellet, cross ends not well defined lacking crescents, pellet in each angle fie-ieiii-iiiio-dil, possibly Scandinavian, intriguing, good very fine Estimate £ 400-500 provenance Chapman, Glendining, 9 November 1978, lot 148 Spink auction 23, 21 September 1982, lot 137
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