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Auction: 1011 - Ancient, English & Foreign Coins, Commemorative Medals & Numismatic Books
Lot: 174

Wessex, Eadmund (939-946), Penny, 1.40g, horizontal type 1, North Eastern variety, Manna, cross pattée within inner circle, +eadmvn.rex, rev. three crosses in a row dividing hant/.nano, trefoil above and below (N.688 var; S.1105 var), roundly struck on a large flan, a most attractive example of the North East type of this issue, almost extremely fine Estimate £ 800-1,000 provenance Found near Ancaster, Lincs., 2009 Recorded with the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, EMC 2010-0243 The heavy lettering and blundered legends are typical of the North-Eastern variety of the horizontal type of Eadmund. These coins are thought to have been struck in the difficult years following the death of Aethelstan in 939 when the Vikings of Lincolnshire and the Northumbria sought to reassert their independence from the kings of Wessex. The rebellion in the East Midlands/Lincolnshire lasted not more than three years as the Anglo Saxon Chronicle records that in 942 Eadmund had recaptured Lincoln and Stamford. Some experts think that the crude style of these coins suggests they are imitative struck by the Vikings at the time of the revolt and copying official issues of Eadmund. It is thought that many of these coins were struck at either Lincoln or Stamford.

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