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Auction: 16019 - The Academic Collection of Lord Stewartby: English Coins part 1, Anglo-Saxon and Norman Coins
Lot: 94

Mercia, Coenwulf (796-821), large portrait phase, c.810-c.822/23, Penny, 1.04g., Canterbury, Sigestef, +C[.]VLF REX M, diademed bust right, rev. +SIGESTEF M[.], large letter A within inner circle (Naismith C42a – this coin; SCBI 20, 587 – this coin; N.-; S.916), good detail and pleasing portrait, substantial chipping, c.70% complete coin otherwise about extremely fine, extremely rare

PROVENANCE
Bt. Baldwin, 30 November 2005
Baldwin auction 18, 12 October 1998, 1641
Spink auction, 19 November 1987, 273
SNC, May 1984, 2765
R.P. Mack, SCBI 20, 587
SNC, October 1955, RCL 29
R.C. Lockett I, Glendining, 6-9 June 1955, 375
Lord Grantley III, 22-23 March 1944, 850

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