| Spink > Auction 24004 | Auction date: 4 April 2024 |
| Lot number: 17 Price realized: 550 GBP (Approx. 691 USD / 642 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | Show similar lots on CoinArchives Find similar lots in upcoming auctions on  |
| Lot description: (x) Æthelred II 'Unræd' (978-1016), 'First Hand' Type, Penny, 979-985, Exeter, Bruna, + ÆÐELRÆD REX ANGLORX, ORX ligated, diademed and draped bust right within solid inner circle, rev. + BRVN M-O EAXECESTE, Hand of Providence (manus dei) issuing from clouds with double crescent sleeve, pellet on palm of hand, at either side Alpha and Omega with contraction bar above each, 1.43g [22.1 gns], 10h (Hildebrand 469 [a.10]; Brettell 21 this coin; SCBI 7 [Copenhagen II], 150 same dies [pierced], and 151 different dies; SCBI 24 [West Country] -; SCBI 25 [Helsinki] -; SCBI [Hermitage I] -; SCBI [Estonia] -; SCBI 65 [Norway I] -; North 766; BMC IIa [Coll. -]; Spink 1144), legend softly struck 1 to 3 o'clock, otherwise almost very fine, an exceedingly rare type coin, the sole issue for this moneyer who also struck for Launceston (cf. John Mayne, Spink 145, 12-14 July 2000, lot 2658 and Montagu, Sotheby's, 1895, lot 770 now in the British Museum). Provenance, The Steve J Green Collection of Anglo-Saxon Coins [with his tickets and envelope], Michael L Gray, Spink 248, 26 September 2017, lot 694 [with his ticket], Seaby, by private treaty, November 1983 [with this ticket], SCMB, July 1983, E425 - "good fine" - £160, SCMB, April 1983, E233 - "good fine" - £160, Glendining, 23 February 1983, lot 69 - £120 [Seaby], R P V Brettell, "A Specialist Collection of the Devon Mints", Glendining, 28 October 1970, lot 21* - fine - £26.0.0, Almost certainly:, W C Wells, collection purchased en bloc by Baldwin, c. 1949, "A Hoard of Coins of Æthelræd II Found in Ireland", William C Wells (BNJ 1923/24), pp. 51-59, no. 4 this coin, Acquired en bloc by William C Wells, Spring 1923, Kildare (1923) Hoard, deposited c. 991, , Wells writes of this find: "The coins were found in the early part of 1923, and came into the writer's possession a few months later. The hoard consisted of 34 coins (Inventory 134), all of the reign of Æthelraed II, which were evidently deposited in the early part of that reign, as only the first two main types are represented. The writer could obtain no information as to the circumstances in which the hoard was discovered, but there is every reason to believe that the 34 specimens described comprised the whole find. The coins were probably enclosed in a leather wallet or purse, which would account for the circumstance that the greater part of the coins are in [an] excellent state of preservation and quite flat" , , However, Dolley writing again for the British Numismatic Journal (1966), in his article: "New Light on the Mullingar Find of Hand Pence of Æthelræd II", noted the following important information: "Most of the coins from this quite limited hoard are in the National Museum in Ireland, despite statements to the contrary, and deficiencies in the original publication and in the inventory listing justify a summary recapitulation of its essential content:- First Hand issue....Exeter, Brun, 1" Estimate: £240 - £300 |  |
