| Spink > Auction 23005 | Auction date: 12 December 2023 |
| Lot number: 166 Price realized: 1,400 GBP (Approx. 1,759 USD / 1,631 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 | Eadred (946-955), 'Horizontal-Rosette' Type, North Western Mints, Penny, Derby [?], Grimr, + EADRED REX, small cross patteé, rev. GRIM | ES MOT, three crosses, rosette above and below, [Spink XRF: 90.57% Ag; 7.54% Cu; 0.69% Au; 0.648% Pb; 0.56% Zn], 1.38g [21.30grns], 8h (Williams IV, 497; CTCE 142; Ruding [1817], Pl. XIX, no. 5 = SCBI 2 [Hunterian], 653 same dies; North 707; BMC I [Coll. no. 49]; Spink 1113), spots of verdigris, otherwise struck on a pleasingly round flan, very fine, a scarce moneyer for this King. Provenance, T Mathews, by private treaty, 1987 - £260 , , A moneyer of this name is known at Bedford in the reign of his son and successor, Eadwig, although historical scholarship has posited the mint of Derby. Seven examples are presently recorded on EMC, all listed in SCBIs, with six of these housed in institutional collections , , In 1909, Raymond Carlyon-Britton utilised a coin of this moneyer to illustrate the series of Hiberno-Norse pennies struck by Anlaf Guthfrithsson were struck at Derby. (cf. " On Certain Tenth Century Coins and Fragments found in the Isle of Man." BNJ, 1909, pp. 375-376 - read 21 July) Estimate: £400 - £600 |  |
