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Auction: 12027 - Ancient, English & Foreign Coins and Commemorative Medals
Lot: 4

Wessex, Alfred the Great (871-99), Penny, 1.09g, lunettes coinage, 871-c.877, reverse lunettes A, London dies, Biarnred, Mercian horizontal style bust right, rex+aelbred, rev. +dmon / biarnre / eta, closed lunettes, cluster of six pellets in fourth quarter at end of legend (Lyons and MacKay 2.IVB, corpus AfL2.5 - this coin; N.625; S.1057A), flan occlusion behind bust, almost extremely fine, very rare

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