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Auction: 16019 - The Academic Collection of Lord Stewartby: English Coins part 1, Anglo-Saxon and Norman Coins
Lot: 231

Aethelred II (978-1016), Penny, 1.14g, Intermediate Small Cross/Crux mule, Exeter, Edric, diademed bust, no sceptre left, rev. +EDRIC M-O EAXEVI, short voided cross with retrograde C, R, V, X, in angles, this die of local work (BNJ XXXVII p24 fig.7 this coin, N773/770var; S1150/1148), toned with a weak portrait and flan split from 2 o’clock to the shoulder, nearly fine/nearly very fine, excessively rare.

PROVENANCE:
W R Hooper collection, purchased by Spink c.1950
R P V Brettell, Glendining 28 October 1970, lot 62
Gift from P Mitchell 31 October 1970

provenance
Gift of peter Mitchell
R P V Brettel, lot 62

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