| Spink > Auction 23005 | Auction date: 12 December 2023 |
| Lot number: 149 Price realized: 1,100 GBP (Approx. 1,382 USD / 1,281 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | Show similar lots on CoinArchives Find similar lots in upcoming auctions on  |
| Lot description: The 'Haddenham' Collection of English Coins | Danish East Anglia (c. 885-915), 'St Edmund Memorial Coinage', Penny, in the name of Pope Adrian III [?], c. 17 May 884 - 8 July 885, Ersalt, + CDRENI DANAC ["To Adrian from the Danes"], commencing at 5 o'clock, capital A and pellets, rev. + ERSALT MON, recumbent S, commencing at 1 o'clock, small cross pattée, [Spink XRF: 94.34% Ag; 3.34% Cu; 1.19% Au; 0.763% Pb; 0.36% Fe], 1.47g [22.69grns], 11h (SCBI 1 [Fitzwilliam], 470-471 same obverse die; SCBI 4 [Copenhagen], 141 same obverse die; SCBI 9 [Ashmolean], 101 same dies; SCBI 17 [Midland], 101 same obverse die; SCMB 488, January 1949, X17 = BNS, 29 May 1949, p. 105, no. 1 = SCBI 26 [East Anglia], 1105 same dies; SCBI 48 [Northern], 736 [Cuerdale Hoard] same dies; Oldknow 4061 same dies; North 483; BMC 402; Spink 960), flan slightly waved with peripheral striking softness, otherwise pleasantly cabinet toned, a bolder very fine, these dies recorded in the Cuerdale Hoard, where this coin probably originated. Provenance, 'IF', by private treaty, 2001 - £170, Believed to be a stray from the Cuerdale (1840) Hoad Estimate: £400 - £600 |  |
