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Auction: 16019 - The Academic Collection of Lord Stewartby: English Coins part 1, Anglo-Saxon and Norman Coins
Lot: 226

Aethelred II (978-1016), Penny, 1.46g, Crux type, Lympne, Leofric, bare headed bust left with sceptre, rev. +LEOFRIC M-O LIMNA, short voided cross with C, R, V, X, in angles (N770; S1148), weakly struck with peck marks to the obverse, lamination to both sides, toned, nearly very fine and very rare of this mint.

PROVENANCE:
Bt Baldwin January 2001.

Leofric's career at Lympne began in First hand and appeared to end at Crux. Only one moneyer, Godric, is known to have struck at the mint subsequent to the Crux type and in only one type, Long cross.

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£550