Coins and Historical Medals

Hiberno-Scandinavian Period, Phase II, Sihtric, Penny, Dublin, Færemin, in imitation of Long Cross coinage, in the name of Sihtric, crude draped bust left, cross potent behind neck, inhirc r+ diedn, rev. fieremen mo dini, long voided cross, pellets in angles, 1.05g/1h (cf. SCBI BM 70ff; cf. SCBI Copenhagen 76; cf. SCBI Ulster 66ff; cf. Roth 44 for portrait; S 6125; DF 23). Edge a little irregular and with a central stress mark, very odd style, very fine £300-£360

‘Viking’ Collection [J.F. Chown], Spink Auction 150, 14 March 2001, lot 1100; SNC February 2008 (IH0168); ‘Good Money’ Collection, Noonans Auction 259, 27 September 2022, lot 528

See lot 144 for an Æthelred II Long Cross Penny of York struck from a Phase I Hiberno-Scandinavian obverse die