Lot Archive

Lot

№ 246

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27 March 1996

Estimate: £250–£300

Aethelred II, Penny, Last Small Cross type, Lincoln, Brihtnoth, BRIHTNOD ON LIC, typical ‘East Midland’ style portrait, 0.98gm (Mossop –; N. 777; S. 1154). Good very fine and extremely rare, the moneyer apparently unknown at Lincoln in the Saxon period (£250-300)

An unusual mint-signature noted for very few dies of any Lincoln issue in the Saxon period by Mossop (pp.28-9)