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Edward the Martyr (975-978), Penny, Reform type, Lympne, Byrhtric, byrhtrtic m’o lim, 1.27g/9h (SCBI Copenhagen 824; BMC –; N 763; S 1142). Obverse from a rusty die, very fine and toned, extremely rare £3,000-4,000

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Halbert Carmichael Collection of British Coins.

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Provenance: A.N. Brushfield Collection (though not in his 1929 Glendining sale); bt G.A. Singer 1994.

EMC lists four Edward the Martyr coins of Lympne, but only the Copenhagen specimen is by the moneyer Byrhtric