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Auction: 14007 - Ancient, British and Foreign Coins and Commemorative Medals
Lot: 481

East Anglia, Aethelstan (c.827-c.45), Penny, 1.27g, East Anglian mint, probably Ipswich, Eadgar, portrait phase c.827-c.830, diademed and draped bust right, eÐelstan re around, legend terminating in four triangular wedges, rev. +eadgar mone around beaded inner circle, cross pattée within, pellets dispersed in legend (Naismith E29.1/29.2; N.438/5; S.948), a detector find thus small chip below bust, otherwise a superb example of this rare coinage, good very fine, an unrecorded die combination for Aethelstan of East Anglia's portrait phase

provenance
Found near Eye, Suffolk, August 2012
Recorded with the Portable Antiquities Scheme, British Museum,
ref. SF-BE27D7
Recorded with the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, EMC 2013.0094

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