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Auction: 16019 - The Academic Collection of Lord Stewartby: English Coins part 1, Anglo-Saxon and Norman Coins
Lot: 228

Aethelred II (978-1016), Penny, 1.23g, Crux type, Rochester, Sidewine, bare headed bust left with sceptre, rev. +SIDPINE M-O ROFEC, short voided cross with C, R, V, X, in angles (N770; S1148), attractively toned on the obverse, a few peck marks, very fine or better.

PROVENANCE:
Bt. January 1956

provenance:
Acquired 2 January 1956

c.f. B H I H Stewart; 'The Small Crux Issue of Aethelred II' in BNJ Vol XXVIII, 1955-57. Lord Stewartby writes; '...the regularity of the issue and the consistency of "Small Crux" moneyers with those of the main "Crux" coins leave no doubt that this was an organized and official, if limited, issue sibsidiary to Aethelraed's third main type.'. The main diagnostic factors of the issue are outlined as follows:

1. Small module of dies and flans; light weight.
2. Plain, serifless letters.
3 Long, thin sceptre, at inclined angle to bust, cutting the drapery.
4. A curious treatment of the hair, by which the front part is swept back at an angle to the rest.

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Sold for
£380