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Auction: 1012 - Ancient, English & Foreign Coins & Commemorative Medals
Lot: 852

Mercia, Ceolwulf I (821-823), non-portrait type Penny, 1.25g, Canterbury, Swefnerd, cross crosslet within inner circle, +cioivvlf rex m, Mercian uncial letter M with a bar above, rev. cross pattée within inner circle, svvefnerd (cf. N.379/1; cf. S.922), chipped, surface cracking, otherwise very fine, the second recorded example of this extremely rare type Estimate £ 900-1,100 provenance Found near Shorne, Kent, 2010. Recorded with the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, EMC 2010.0304 This type is only known for one other coin found in 1999 near Wallingford, Oxon (Fitzwilliam EMC 1999.0170). This new find adds a second example which has the same obverse die but uses a different reverse die. Swefnerd is well known as a moneyer using Canterbury dies working for Archbishop Wulfred and Coenwulf, but is only known from these two coins for Ceolwulf I. He went on to strike for Ecgbert of Wessex after he took control of Kent in 825.

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