| Spink > Auction 23129 | Auction date: 26 January 2024 |
| Lot number: 9804 Price realized: 2,800 GBP (Approx. 3,556 USD / 3,283 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | Show similar lots on CoinArchives Find similar lots in upcoming auctions on  |
| Lot description: Kent, Anonymous Regal Issues, temp. Baldred (c. 822-823), Penny, Canterbury, Oba, diademed and draped bust right within solid inner circle from which extend three arms, each in the form of a Latin cross dividing the legend, O[BA-M]ON-ETA, rev. DOROB | ERNIA | C[IVITAS] in three lines, small cross pattée above, 0.86g (North 222; Spink 878), half of flan cut away, that which remains scratched with light porosity, but detailed and a fine example of this great rarity; additionally, Archbishops of Canterbury, Wulfred (805-832), Penny, Canterbury, Swetman, draped and tonsured bust facing, rev. + SVATEM[AN MONET]A, legend surrounding circle containing DOROB C monogram, 0.49g (North 240; Spink 888; Naismith C92b = BNJ Coin Register, 1987, no. 103 = EMC 1987.0103 this coin), good fine, an unusual and scarce type; also, Mercia, Coenwulf (796-821), 'Cross and Wedges' Type Penny, Canterbury, Duda (Spink 915); Mercia, Ceolwulf I (821-823), Penny, Rochester, Ealhstan, [+ COEL]VVLF REX, rev. + EALHTAN [MONETA], monogram A superimposed on cross, 0.94g (North 376; Spink 921); lastly, Mercia, Ceolwulf I (821-823), Penny, East Anglia Issues, (Spink 927) (4). Provenance, i) P Elkins, by private treaty, 30 November 2005 - £300 , ii) Reportedly found in North Essex, 1987, ~ Recorded with the BNJ Coin Register 1987, no. 103 ~, ~ Recorded with the Fitzwilliam Museum (1987.0103) ~, "Only one specimen has hitherto been recorded of Wulfred's Second Monogram (Ecgbeorht) type (BLS no. 19). The reverse reading is very puzzling, but should perhaps be seen as +SVAEFH . .; although it must be said that the T seems clear enough. No other moneyer than Swefheard is known, and one would have to postulate the very brief activity, late in Wulfred's pontificate, of a moneyer with an otherwise unrecorded name. For pellets added to the monogram, cf. a coin of Ecgbeorht of the same reverse type, BMA 374.", iii) By private treaty, Dorset, 17 September 2006 - £171, Found in North Dorset, by September 2006, ~ Recorded with the Fitzwilliam Museum (EMC 2023.0???) ~, iv) M Andrews, by private treaty, Old Ellerby (East Riding of Yorkshire), 7 August 2006 - £175, Found at Whissonsett (Norfolk), by April 2006, ~ Recorded with the Fitzwilliam Museum (EMC 2006.0208) ~, v) P Elkins, by private treaty, 13 May 2006 - £495, Found at King's Lynn (Norfolk), Winter 2005, ~ Recorded with the Fitzwilliam Museum (EMC 2006.0070) ~, Estimate: £80 - £120 |  |
