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№ 457

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6 April 2021

Hammer Price:
£950

Kings of East Anglia, Eadwald (796-800), Penny, Ipswich?, Botræd, l:d+ +eadva rex in three lines, rev. bo ᛏr ed in angles of voided tribrach, 1.05g/6h (Naismith E1.2; N –; S 947). Broken and repaired, edge loss and some porosity, otherwise good fine, very rare £400-£600

Naismith records a single coin of this type in his corpus, but another specimen from the same dies was subsequently discovered in 2018 (EMC 2018.0025). The present coin, struck from a second pair of dies, appears to be the third known example of the type