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Auction: 16019 - The Academic Collection of Lord Stewartby: English Coins part 1, Anglo-Saxon and Norman Coins
Lot: 75

Archbishops of Canterbury, Wulfred (805-32), group I c.805-10, Penny, 1.19g., Canterbury, +VVLFREDI [.]CHIEPISCOPI, facing tonsured bust within inner circle, rev. +DOROVER[.]A CIFITATIS, alpha and omega within inner-circle (Naismith C26.2;. SCBI 20, 654 – this coin; N.236; S.887), chipped, otherwise very fine, extremely rare, this reverse only known for five coins

PROVENANCE
Bt. SNC, December 1992, 7423
R.P. Mack, SCBI 20, 654
Lord Grantley III, Glendining, 22-23 March 1944, 895
Bt. Grantley from Spink in 1902

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