Auction: 9031 - Ancient, English and Foreign Coins and Commemorative Medals
Lot: 150
x Wessex, Edward the Elder (899-924), portrait type Penny, 1.35g, Deorawald, diademed bust left +xeadvveard, obv. line of three crosses dividing deora/valdmo, cross and two trefoils above, trefoil below (N.651; S.1084; SCBI 26 (Morley St. Peter hoard), 282-obverse die duplicate), old dark tone, good very fine, rare Estimate £ 4,000-5,000 This bust style is attributred to East Anglia after 910. provenance Bird, Glendining, 20 November 1974, lot 99 RC Lockett, Glendining, 4 November 1958, lot 2710 Bruun, Sotheby, 18 May 1924, lot 74 (realised £5-5-0)
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£9,500