| Classical Numismatic Group > Triton XXVII | Auction date: 9 January 2024 |
| Lot number: 1232 Price realized: 13,000 USD (Approx. 11,907 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | Show similar lots on CoinArchives Find similar lots in upcoming auctions on  |
| Lot description: ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of Kent. Anonymous. 822/3-4(?). AR Penny (21mm, 1.37 g, 12h). Canterbury mint; Swefheard, moneyer. + SVVEFHERD MONETΛ, diademed bust right / + SVVEFHERD MONET, – –/ DRVR/ – –/ CITS in three lintes. Naismith C55.3a and p. 126, note 92 = BLS 11 (this coin); SCBI –; North 222/1; SCBC 878. Richly toned, slight die rust. Good VF. Extremely rare. Form the Causeway Collection. Ex Archbishop Sharp (Morton & Eden 91, 7 December 2017), lot 22. Earlier scholarship assigned this coinage to the 822/3-4 period, based on stylistic comparison with the royal coinage of King Coelwulf I of Mercia. However, Bradley Hopper recently challenged this chronology, questioning why there would be a break down in royal authority, as indicated by the removal of the royal name from the coinage. He suggests the answer lies in the contentious relationship between Archbishop Wulfred and King Coenwulf of Mercia, who had Wulfred suspended from 817-821, providing an alternate chronology for these anonymous issues. (Hopper, B. "The dating of Canterbury's anonymous Archiepiscopal coinage," in BNJ 92 [2022], p. 39-48) Naismith notes that this particular coin is a mule of the anonymous type with a reverse normally used under Baldred. The die rusts suggests that Swefheard pressed an outdated obverse into service when his Baldred obverse die broke. Estimate: 7500 USD |  |
