The North Yorkshire Moors Collection of British Coins

Kings of Wessex, Æthelwulf, Penny, First Portrait Phase [II], Canterbury, Deora, edelvvlf r · e around small diademed and draped bust right breaking inner circle, rev. diar · moneta· around cross-crosslet, 1.41g/3h (Naismith C108.1j, this coin; SCBI BM 1136, same dies; BMC 43; N 610; cf. S 1047-8). Small edge chip, otherwise very fine, rare £1,500-2,000

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The North Yorkshire Moors Collection of British Coins.

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Provenance: Duke of Argyll Collection; SNC March 1953 (15833); L.V. Larsen Collection, Glendining Auctiion, 1 November 1972, lot 13