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Auction: 1012 - Ancient, English & Foreign Coins & Commemorative Medals
Lot: 858

Wessex, Edward the Elder (899-924), Penny, 1.45g, horizontal type, Kent, c.910-920, Beorhtred, small cross pattée within inner cicle, +eadvverd rex, rev. berht/redmo in two lines divided by three small crosses, trefoil above, pellet below (N.649; S.1087), pleasing, good very fine, rare moneyer Estimate £ 400-500 provenance Found nr. Cerne Abbas, Dorset, 2010 Recorded with the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, EMC 2010.0279 The coinage of Edward the Elder and Archbishop Plegmund was considered in the Coinage of Tenth Century England (Blunt, Stewart and Lyon, 1989) and Beorhtred was assigned as a Kentish moneyer (p.62). The large flan size at 23mm. diameter and inner circle at 13.5mm., are associated with the middle years of Edward´s reign i.e. c.910-920. Two other coins by Beorhtred are recorded, one in the British Museum from the 1928 Vatican Hoard, and another in the Museum of Antiquities in Edinburgh.

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