| Spink > Auction 23005 | Auction date: 12 December 2023 |
| Lot number: 167 Price realized: 650 GBP (Approx. 816 USD / 757 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), 'Portrait' Type, East Anglian Mints, Penny, Ingalbert, EADRED REX, diademed and draped bust right, rev. + ENGELBERT MO, small cross pattée, [Spink XRF: 74.58% Ag; 19.33% Cu; 3.08% Pb; 2.36% Zn; 0.64% Au], 0.99g [15.28grns], 3h (CTCE –; BMC –; cf. SCBI 68 [Lyon], 725; North 713; Spink 1115), porous surfaces and some edge loss, with a hairline crack through obverse, otherwise the portrait clearly struck, very fine, an extremely scarce moneyer for this type. Provenance, Warwick & Warwick 836, 18 April 2018, lot 783 - £655, Spink 216, 26-27 March 2013, lot 507 - "porous surfaces and some edge loss, obverse scratch, otherwise clear, an unrecorded moneyer, possibly the only known coin of this moneyer, nearly very fine, very rare" - £1,200, SNC, March 2012, HS4828 - porous metal, scratch, otherwise clear, unrecorded moneyer for portrait Pennies of Eadred, very rare - £2,250, N Mills, by private treaty, 21 November 2011 - £1,600, DNW 86, 16 June 2010, lot 904 - 1.04g; rather buckled and with a hairline surface crack on obverse, otherwise better than very fine, the moneyer unpublished for the type, probably the only known specimen - £1,650 - and subsequently restored with resultant edge loss , One of only three traced by this cataloguer, with this moneyer and type combination. Englbred and Ingelberd are both known readings for Eadred's Two Line type (CTCE 30 and 42/1) Estimate: £400 - £600 |  |
